The IBPS RRB Mains 2019 exam is scheduled for October 13, 2019 (Officers Scale 1) and October 20, 2019 (Office Assistant). Current Affairs is an important section of this exam. So for better preparation of students in the Current Affairs Section, we have compiled the most important 250 Current Affairs news in the form of one-liners and presented it in a form of this PDF. You can download the One-Liner PDF for IBPS RRB Mains Exam from the link given below. You can also study the same from this page.
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- RBI Reduces Repo Rate by 25 bps to 5.15%. Policy Repo Rate : 5.15%; Reverse Repo Rate : 4.90%; Marginal Standing Facility Rate : 5.40%; Bank Rate : 5.40%; CRR : 4%; SLR : 18.75%. RBI has revised the GDP growth target for 2019-20 to 6.1 percent. For 2020-21, GDP outlook is 7.2%. accommodative stance
- S&P Global Ratings Projects India’s growth Forecast at 6.3% for FY20; 7% for FY21
- Power Theft Awareness Campaign ‘Urjagiri’ Launched in Uttarakhand
- Indo-Mongolian Joint Military Exercise Nomadic Elephant 2019 To Begin from October 05 to 18 at Bakloh
- Indo-Maldives Joint Military Exercise Ekuverin 19 to be Held in Pune from 07-20 October
- Jaipur Railway Station Tops Indian Railways’ Station Cleanliness Survey 2019
- Govt launches PRAKASH portal for improving coal supply coordination to power plants. PRAKASH stands for ”Power Rail Koyla Availability through Supply Harmony”.
- Indo-Kazakhstan Joint Military Exercise KAZIND 2019 Begins in Pithoragarh
- Sachin Tendulkar Receives ‘Most Effective Swachhata Ambassador’ Award
- Ben Stokes Bags PCA Players’ Player of the Year 2019
- SS Mallikarjuna Rao appointed MD and CEO of Punjab National Bank
- Surjit Bhalla appointed as executive director for India at IMF
- IAS officer Abhishek Singh has been appointed the chief executive officer of MyGov India, the government’s citizen-centric online platform.
- India’s largest ‘charkha’ made of waste plastic inaugurated in Noida
- RBI appoints Jai Bhagwan Bhoria as new administrator for PMC Bank. PMC Bank HQ- Mumbai.
- IAU Names Minor Planet After Indian Musical Maestro Pandit Jasraj. [2006 VP32 (number -300128)
- RBI sets WMA Limit for GoI for second half of the Financial Year 2019-20 at Rs 35,000 Crore
- NITI Aayog Releases First Edition of School Education Quality Index (SEQI). Top- Kerala
- Kaushal Dharmamer wins Maldives International Challenge (badminton)
- Sumit Nagal Wins Men’s Singles Title of ATP Challenger Tournament in Argentina
- Veteran Bollywood Actor Viju Khote Who Played ‘Kalia’ in Sholay, Passes Away at 77
- Lewis Hamilton Wins 2019 Russian Grand Prix
- Kento Momota wins Korea Open (Badminton)
- India lift SAFF U-18 Championship title, defeat Bangladesh in final
- ‘Bathukamma’, the floral festival of Telangana, began across the state
- World Hindu Economic Forum 2019 held in Mumbai
- Rural Investors and Start-up Conclave (RISC) 2019 held in Hyderabad
- A pilot project for ushering in Industry 4.0 has been launched at the Modern Coach Factory Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh.
- Air Marshal HS Arora appointed as Vice Chief of Indian Air Force
- CBDT extends PAN-Aadhaar linking deadline to December 31
- Odisha Unveils Mascot ‘Tiki Mausi’ to Combat Malnutrition Among Children & Women
- Japan Launches World’s Biggest Cargo Spaceship ‘Kounotori8’ To Replenish Supplies At ISS
- HDFC Bank Tops BrandZ Top 75 Most Valuable Indian Brands Ranking For Sixth Consecutive Year
- BIS sets up ‘green’ bond fund for central banks – FX piles
- Andhra Pradesh Bags Best State Award in National Tourism Awards 2017-18; Best Film Production Friendly State/Union Territory – Uttarakhand
- Infosys has won the United Nations Global Climate Action Award in ‘carbon neutral now’ category.
- Govt Reconstitutes EAC-PM For Two Years Till 2021, Bibek Debroy Retained as Chairman. Total members-4
- Army Chief General Bipin Rawat appointed as the Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC).
- Kristalina Georgieva Appointed New Chief of IMF
- Sebastian Coe Re-elected as IAAF President
- UNCTAD predicts India’s GDP growth rate for 2019 at 6%
- India ranked 44th in world digital competitiveness rankings; Top- US
- Book titled ‘Reset: Regaining India’s Economic Legacy’ authored by Subramanian Swamy launched
- Paolo Borrometi wins Peter Mackler Award for mafia coverage
- India International Science Festival to be held in Kolkata from Nov 5-8
- Government Amends Pension Rules, Hikes Pension to Families of Deceased Govt Employees who Served less than 7 Years to 50%
- ADB predicts GDP growth rate for India at 6.5 pc in FY20, 7.2 pc in FY21
- Mukesh Ambani Tops Hurun India Rich List 2019 for Eighth Consecutive Year
- Indian Company Infosys Third Best Regarded Company in the World, Visa Tops: Forbes
- Govt institutes ‘Sardar Patel National Unity Award’ – Highest Civilian Award for contribution to Unity and Integrity of India
- Amitabh Bachchan Honored With Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2018
- Indian Girl, Payal Jangid awarded ‘Changemaker’ award by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- UK Mathematician Adam Harper Wins SASTRA Ramanujan prize for 2019
- Siddharth Shanghvi pens book on mortality titled “Loss”
- 16th Global SME Business Summit 2019 held in New Delhi
- UN Climate Action Summit 2019 Held in New York
- Ravish Kumar Receives First Gauri Lankesh Memorial Award
- Football player Lionel Messi has won the FIFA Men’s Player of the Year award while Megan Rapinoe has won the FIFA Women’s Player of the Year award.
- The Union Minister for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences and Health & Family Welfare, Dr. Harsh Vardhan has launched the UMMID (Unique Methods of Management and treatment of Inherited Disorders) initiative.
- Centre for I-T e-assessment to be based in Delhi; Head- K M Prasad
- RBI approves reappointment of Shyam Srinivasan as Federal Bank CEO
- First India-US tri-services ‘Exercise Tiger Triumph’ to be held in India in Nov
- Former India cricketer Madhav Apte passes away at 86
- MIT Tops, IIT Bombay Top Indian Institute in QS’ Graduate Employability Rankings 2020
- HDFC Bank to hold 1,000 grameen loan melas over next 6 months
- Sonu Nigam wins 21st Century Icon Award in UK
- Amit Panghal becomes first Indian to win silver medal at World Boxing Championships
- Sebastian Vettel wins the Singapore Grand Prix 2019
- Carolina Marina and Kento Momota wins China Open Badminton Title 2019
- Lata Mangeshkar to release memoir penned by sister Meena Mangeshkar titled “Didi Aur Main”
- B R Vats, former PTI correspondent who covered 1st LS polls passed away at the age of 97 in New Delhi
- RBI increases sanctioned limit for Classification of Exports under priority Sector to Rs 400 million
- Bank of Baroda launches agri digital platform – “Baroda Kisan”
- NTPC to Build Country’s Biggest Solar Park in Gujarat
- Royal Bank of Scotland picks Alison Rose as its first woman CEO
- No stressed MSME to be declared as NPA till March 31, 2020: Finance Minister
- Corporate Tax for Domestic Companies: Now 22%. Earlier it was 30%.Effective Corporate Tax: 25.17% including cess and surcharge. Earlier it was 34.94%.
- Government notifies 8.65% on EPF for 2018-19
- SEBI constitutes working group on ‘Social Stock Exchanges’ (SSE); Head- Ishaat Hussain
- Govt forms committee to relook at offences under Companies Act; Head- Injeti Srinivas
- OECD cuts India’s GDP growth forecast from 7.2% to 5.9% for FY20; For FY21- 6.3%
- IMPS rated world’s best in ‘Faster Payments Innovation Index’
- Kerala to host country’s first-ever ‘trans art festival’
- Telangana To Observe 2020 as “Year of AI”
- Paro Anand authors book titled “Being Gandhi”
- First International Conference on Sustainability Education Held in New Delhi
- India’s First Central Police University To be Set up in Greater Noida
- India’s first environment school named World Environment School, Coorg (WESc) will come up at Coorg, Karnataka.
- Beneficiaries under Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana crosses 1 crore mark
- Ministry of Human Resource Development has announced a new Scheme named National Educational Alliance for Technology (NEAT) under which technology (Artificial Intelligence) will be used for better learning outcomes in Higher Education.
- Indian School of Business (ISB) Ranks 7th in Forbes’ ‘Best Business School 2019’ List Globally; Top- IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Four New Judges appointed in Supreme Court, Strength Goes Up to Highest-ever of 34
- Air Marshal RKS Bhadauria appointed as the new Chief of Indian Air Force
- The Hyderabad Karnataka region that comprises of six districts has been renamed to “Kalyana Karnataka”.
- Indian Diaspora Largest in the World with 17.5 Million Living Abroad: UN report
- Govt waives 3-year lock-in period on investments made by NRI in IDF bonds
- Airtel Payments Bank launches ‘Bharosa’ savings account
- London overtakes India’s financial capital Mumbai in rupee trading
- Animal Panda which is named “Bing Dwen Dwen” has been chosen as the official mascot of Winter Olympics 2022 that will be held in Beijing, China.
- Horror Filmmaker Shyam Ramsay of Ramsay Brothers Fame Passes Away at 67
- India’s First National Antimicrobial Resistance Hub Inaugurated in Kolkata
- Maiden India, Singapore, Thailand Naval Exercise SITMEX-19 Begins in Port Blair
- Aadhaar authentication to be mandatory for new dealers from Jan 2020
- MFIN, Sa-Dhan jointly launch ‘Code for Responsible Lending’ for microfinance industry
- Wg Cdr Anjali Singh becomes India’s first female military diplomat
- Takehiko Nakao To Step Down as Asia Development Bank President
- National Centre for Clean Coal Research & Development inaugurated at Bengaluru
- ECGC Introduces NIRVIK Scheme to Enhance Loan Availability to Exporters
- Visa, BillDesk partner to roll out interface for recurring payments method – SI-Hub
- Renowned Writer Sivaraman Cheriyanad Passes Away
- Pankaj Advani wins IBSF World Billiards Championship to win his 22nd World Title
- Sourabh Verma wins Vietnam Open title (Badminton)
- Indian Shuttler Lakshya Sen Clinches Belgian International Challenge
- Shuttler Kaushal Dharmamer wins Myanmar International Series
- India ranked 79th in Global Economic Freedom index; Top- Hong Kong
- Meity forms committee to examine non-personal data regulation; Head- Kris Gopalakrishnan
- Indian Army to conduct Exercise ‘HimVijay’ in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam
- Tata firm, Nelco, launches India’s first maritime broadband
- Gujarat has once again topped the Logistics Ease Across Different States (LEADS) index which is a perception-based index of mobility of goods and efficiency of logistics chain.
- Mukhya Mantri Dal Poshit Yojana launched in Uttarakhand
- India-Thailand Joint Military Exercise Maitree 2019 to be Held in Meghalaya
- RBI increases banks’ exposures to a single NBFC from 15% to 20%
- RBI cuts risk weight on consumer credit from 125% to 100%
- Sudha Murthy to launch book titled “The Daughter from a Wishing Tree”
- University of Oxford tops THE World University Rankings; IISc Banglore top India
- Music director Usha Khanna to get ‘Lata Mangeshkar Award’
- CBDT launches one-time facility for compounding of income tax offences, Deadline- 31 Dec 2019
- 24th World Energy Congress held in Abu Dhabi
- Govt sets up committee to look into assets, liabilities of JK to be given to 2 UTs; Head- Sanjay Mitra
- Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) will conduct the economic census every three years.
- Beijing Tops While Mumbai Among Top 5 in Asia Pacific Co-living Index by Knight Frank
- Jack Ma steps down as Chairman of Alibaba; Daniel Zhang takes over
- India ranked fourth in global malaria cases in 2017: Lancet report
- India’s First Helicopter Summit held in Dehradun
- Kerala will set up the country’s first International Women’s Trade Centre (iWTC), in partnership with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Senior journalist Dilip Satpathy passes away
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that India’s first-ever ‘water-grid’ will come in the parched Marathwada region of Maharashtra in the next five years as part of the Jal Jeevan Mission (JMM).
- India-Sri Lanka Maritime Fleet Exercise SLINEX 2019 Begins in Visakhapatnam
- Modi Government to Honour Lata Mangeshkar With ‘Daughter Of The Nation’ Title On Her 90th Birthday
- Vikram Sampath authors book titled “Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924”
- Charles Leclerc wins the Italian Grand Prix 2019
- Veteran Lawyer And Former Union Minister Ram Jethmalani Passes Away At 95
- Government Sets up Task Force to Identify National Infrastructure Projects Worth Rs. 100 Lakh Crore For FY 2019-20 – FY 2024-25; Head : Economic Affairs Secretary- Atanu Chakraborty.
- Ujjwala scheme achieves 8 crore target before schedule
- 4th Indian Ocean Conference held in Male, Maldives
- Former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe Passes Away at 95
- CARE cuts India’s GDP growth to 6.4-6.5% for FY20
- RBI Makes External Benchmark Based Interest Rate mandatory for certain categories of loans from October 1, 2019. These benchmark are: Repo rate; Government of India 3-Months Treasury Bill yield published by the Financial Benchmarks India Private Ltd (FBIL); Government of India 6-Months Treasury Bill yield published by the FBIL; Any other benchmark market interest rate published by the FBIL.
- Overseas Citizen of India investment platform launched; fund size- USD 100 billion; Chairman- B K Modi
- CRISIL cuts India’s GDP growth to 6.3% in FY20
- India ranked 34th in Travel and Tourism ranking index: WEF; Top- Spain
- Vienna tops most liveable city index: EIU; Damascus- least
- PM Modi honored With ‘Global Goalkeeper Award’ by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
- India Pledges USD 22 million to GFTAM for 2020-22
- IRDAI setups panel on trade credit insurance; Head – Atul Sahai
- 15th Indo-US Joint Military Exercise Yudh Abhyas 2019 Held in Washington.
- Malabar Exercise 2019- involving India, Japan, and the United States to be held in Sept End
- ESIC ties up with SBI for real-time payments to ESIC beneficiaries
- National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai will launch the ”Samudrayaan” project to carry out deep underwater studies. The project will be launched in 2022.
- KVIC launched a first-ever ‘Terracotta Grinder’ in Varanasi
- India Ranks 9th in Global Happiness Survey; Top- Australia and Canada
- Indonesia to move capital from Jakarta to East Kalimantan (Borneo island)
- Fitch revises India’s GDP growth for FY20 to 6.4%
- DBS reduces India’s GDP growth rate for FY20 to 6.2%
- Book titled “A Short History of Indian Railways”, has been penned by Rajendra B Aklekar
- Lt Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane Takes Charge as Vice Chief of the Army Staff
- Vice President Venkaiah Naidu Inaugurates India’s Longest Electrified Rail Tunnel in Andhra Pradesh
- Charles Leclerc wins F1 Belgian Grand Prix
- Assam’s “National Register of Citizens” list released. 3,11,21,004 people have been found eligible for inclusion in the list. 19,06,657 people have been left out. A total of 3,30,27,661 persons had applied for NRC.
- Government Approves to Set up Gorewada International Zoo in Nagpur
- 2% TDS to be levied on cash withdrawals over Rs 1 crore from Sept 01
- Vivek Kumar Johri Takes Charge as Director General BSF
- “Fastest Woman On Four Wheels”, Jessi Combs, dies aged 36
- M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurates Aqua Aquaria India 2019 in Hyderabad
- Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has launched a campaign named “angikaar” that aims to bring beneficiaries of PMAY (urban) into the fold of other central schemes such as Ujjawala and Ayushman Bharat.
- RBI increases timeline for conversion of minimum detail PPIs to full KYC PPI to 24 months
- Nomura predicts India’s GDP at 6.9% in 2020
- Book titled “Obama: The Call of History” by Peter Baker released
- Mumbai ranked 45th in Safe Cities Index 2019; Top- Tokyo
- In a first, ICICI Bank deploys ‘Robotic Arms’ for currency sorting at its chests
- C. Mody’s tenure as Chairman of CBDT extended by 1 year
- MD & CEO of Lakshmi Vilas Bank, Parthasarathi Mukherjee resigns
- 12th India Security Summit held in New Delhi
- Human Resource Ministry launched “Shagun” Portal to improve school education system
- India Becomes World’s First Country to Launch Biometric Seafarer Identity Document (BSID)
- Wing Commander Shalija Dhami of Indian Air Force has become the first female officer in India to be appointed as the Flight Commander of a flying unit.
- Pakistan-China Begins 8th Annual Joint Air Exercise Shaheen VIII
- India Ratings predicts India’s GDP forecast at 6.7% for FY’20
- Canara Bank launches OTP facility for ATM cash withdrawals over Rs 10,000
- In a first, HDFC Bank, MasterCard launch Millennia cards aimed at ‘Young India’
- Taylor Swift tops Forbes’ list of world’s highest-paid women in music
- PM Modi Declares September 2019 as Month of Nutrition
- India’s first FinTech centre of excellence comes up in Chennai
- IIT-Delhi establishes waste-to-wealth centre (DESMI Centre)
- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to transfer a sum of Rs 1,76,051 crore to the Government of India. This comprises of Rs 1,23,414 crore of surplus for the year 2018-19 and Rs 52,637 crore of excess provisions identified as per the revised Economic Capital Framework (ECF).
- Bahrain Confers PM Modi With ‘The King Hamad Order of the Renaissance’
- PV Sindhu Beats Nozomi Okuhara to Win BWF World Championships
- PM Modi Honored with UAE’s Highest Civilian Award ‘Order of Zayed
- Gujarat ranked first in Composite Water Management Index 2.0
- The Union Minister for Textiles Smriti Zubin Irani inaugurated Project SU.RE, which stands for Sustainable Resolution
- CVC setups Advisory Board for Banking Frauds (ABBF); Head- TM Bhasin
- 7 of the world’s 10 worst-performing bank stocks are in India; Top- Yes Bank
- Conservationist Vivek Menon Awarded Clark Bavin Award 2019
- Praneeth becomes first Indian male shuttler to win World Championships medal in 36 years
- President Ramnath Kovind Inaugurates First World Youth Conference on Kindness in New Delhi
- Russia Launches Its First Humanoid Robot “Fedor” Into Space
- DBS named ‘World’s Best Bank’ by Euromoney magazine
- Vikram Rathour to be India’s Batting Coach in Cricket
- Kiren Rijiju to head committee for Fit India Movement
- Government to launch e-commerce portal named Bharatcraft
- RBI changes RTGS opening time from 8 AM to 7 AM
- RBI allows e-mandates on cards for recurring transactions upto Rs 2000
- Akshay Kumar ranked 4th in Forbes’ highest-paid actors’ list; Top- Dwayne Johnson
- The Ministry of Human Resource Development has launched the National Initiative for School Heads’ and Teachers’ Holistic Advancements (NISHTHA) aimed at training over 42 lakh teachers across the country.
- Karnataka has emerged as the best state for setting up a roof top solar project according to the State Rooftop Solar Attractiveness Index–SARAL. It was released by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
- Legendary Music Composer Khayyam Passes Away At 92
- The Union Minister of State for Chemical & Fertilizers Mansukh Mandaviya has said that the first Central Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology (CICET) will be set up in Gujarat.
- Chhattisgarh to Set up ‘Lemru Elephant Reserve’
- IIT-Madras Researchers Launches Industrial and Field Robot ‘GraspMan’
- Manmohan Singh elected to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan
- Companies can now have up to 74% Differential Voting Rights (DVR) shares
- Rajiv Dogra authors novel titled “Second Night”
- Biennial Multilateral Naval Exercise ‘MILAN’ to be Held at Visakhapatnam in March 2020
- Banks to identify at least one branch in a State for Gold Monetisation Scheme: RBI
- Veteran Doordarshan Anchor Neelum Sharma Passes Away
- 14th KONKAN exercise between Indian and Britain Navy begins in the UK
- Ravi Shashtri reappointed as head coach of Indian Cricket team
- Danish bank (Jyske Bank) launches world’s first negative interest rate home loan
- Aditya Puri is the highest-paid bank CEO
- India’s First Clinical Ecotoxicology Facility Unveiled at AIIMS, Delhi
- India, Russia to boost ties to achieve $30 billion bilateral trade by 2025
- Satyarth Nayak Authors Book Titled ‘Sridevi: Girl Woman Superstar’
- Aishwarya Pissay Becomes First Indian to Win a World Title in Motorsports
- Gogabeel lake in Bihar declared state’s first ‘Community Reserve’
- World’s First Self-standing Crutch ‘Flexmotiv’ Launched by IIT Delhi
- Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh to Turn into Separate Union Territories on October 31, 2019
- West Bengal top Indian State in 2018-19 in terms of GDP growth
- Sourabh Verma wins Hyderabad Open (Badminton)
- CBDT raises limit for appeals in IT Appellate Tribunal to Rs 50 lakhs. For High Court, the appeal limit has been increased from Rs 50 lakhs to Rs 1 crore. For Supreme Court, the appeal limit has been increased from Rs 1 Crore to Rs 2 Crore.
- RBL Bank launches India’s first health-focused credit card
- ‘Resurgent India’- Book by Former RBI Governor Bimal Jalan Released
- Kenneth M Quinn wins MS Swamianathan award for environment protection
- India ranked 13 in National Water Stress Ranking; Top- Qatar
- CAIT partners with HDFC bank to launch “Digi Vyapari-Safal Vyapari” initiative
- PV Sindhu only Indian in Forbes list of world’s highest-paid female athletes (at 13th); Top- Serena Williams.
- Apple issues Apple Credit Card in partnership with Goldman Sachs
- Mohali Gets India’s First 3-D Traffic Signal
- Microsoft partners with AGTB for world’s first fully digital trade bank
- Kolkata to get India’s first underwater Metro
- Siddhartha Mohanty takes charge as MD-CEO of LIC Housing Finance.