Weekly Current Affairs (08th to 14th January 2019)

Weekly Current Affairs Series – Dear Candidates, Here is the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs of January 2019 for GPSC, GSSSB, Talati, TET, TAT, HTAT, Bin Sachivalay Clerks, PSI, Police Constable etc and other competitive exams.

Important Days:

• January 9 – PravasiBharatiya Divas
• January 10 – World Hindi Day
• January 12 – National Youth Day

Current Affairs: National

1. The ministerial panel under Bihar Deputy Chief Minister SushilModi approved levy of 1% ‘calamity cess’ by Kerala for a period of two years to fund rehabilitation work in the state hit by floods.
2. The Ministry of Human Resource Development has introduced a 70 point grading index to assess the quality of school education offered by states.
3. Minister of State (IC) for Information & Broadcasting and Youth Affairs & Sports, Col. RajyavardhanRathore (Retd.) launched the sharing of All India Radio News with private FM broadcasters.
4. The LokSabha has passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill
5. Andaman to be First Island to operate seaplanes under UDAN- 3
6. UGC decided to set up Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics (CARE) to refine and strengthen research publication.
7. Country’s longest single lane steel cable bridge opened in Arunachal Pradesh
8. Prime Minister NarendraModi will inaugurate the 15th PravasiBharatiya Divas on 21 January, at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
9. The Union cabinet has given its approval for establishment of three new AIIMS at Samba in Jammu, Pulwama in Kashmir and Rajkot in Gujarat
10. Minister for Electronics and IT (MeitY) Ravi Shankar Prasad inaugurated the National Informatics Centre (NIC)’s Command and Control Centre (CCC).
11. Six states Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh signed an agreement for construction of Renukaji Dam Multi-Purpose Project.
12. Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the 25th edition of Partnership Summit 2019 in Mumbai. Theme of Summit is New India Rising to Global Occasions
13. The Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, has launched an online campaign, ‘#www : Web Wonder Women’.
14. Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Dr Harsh Vardhan launched the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) aiming to reduce toxic particulate matter by 2024
15. Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Col RajyavardhanRathore launched the National Youth Parliament Festival 2019 at New Delhi.

Current Affairs: International

1. Guatemala was withdrawing from a United Nations backed anti-corruption commission and giving its prosecutors a day to leave the country.
2. The first India-Central Asia Dialogue will be held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on January 12 and 13.
3. The United States Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) launched a new innovation initiative at the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi. The initiative, titled “Fair Value for Innovation”.