IBPS PO MAINS 2019: Appointments, GDP, Defence news
General Awareness is the most important section for the upcoming exams to crack all the Competitive Exams, so we are here to provide current affairs for IBPS PO MAINS 2019 up to date. In addition to that Static Current Affairs, we provide all the related information of current affairs 2019. which covers the static general awareness and banking awareness questions for IBPS PO MAINS 2019.
Defence: List of military exercises 2019(last 3 months):
| Name of Exercise | Participating Nations | Conducted at | Month |
| Tiger Triumph | India and the United States | Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh | November |
| SINDU SUDARSHAN-VII | Indian Army | Pokharan, Rajasthan | November |
| Samudra Shakti 2019 | India and Indonesia | Bay of Bengal | November |
| KAZIND 2019 | India and Kazakhstan | Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand | October |
| Dharma Guardian 2019 | India and Japan | Vairengte, Mizoram | October |
| Him Vijay | Indian Army | Arunachal Pradesh | October |
| Nomadic Elephant-XIV | India and Mangolia | Bakloh,Himachal Pradesh | October |
| Ekuverin 2019 | India and Maldives | Pune, Maharashtra | October |
| SITMEX 2019 | India, Thailand and Singapore | Port Blair | September |
| Yudh Abhyas 2019 | India and the United States | Washington | September |
| MAITREE-2019 | India and Thailand | Meghalaya | September |
India GDP growth forecast 2019 by various organisations:
| Organizations | 2019-2020 |
| Fitch | 5.5% |
| Moody’s | 5.8% |
| OECD | 5.9% |
| World Bank | 6.0% |
| UNCTAD | 6.0% |
| RBI | 6.1% |
| IMF | 6.1% |
| CRISIL | 6.3% |
| Standard and Poor | 6.3% |
| ADB | 6.5% |
| Economic Survey 2018-19 | 7.0% |
ADB and World Bank MOU’s and Agreements with India:
| BANK | Amount | Purpose |
| World Bank | $165 Million | Odisha’s Integrated Irrigation Project |
| ADB | $190 Million | State highways and major district roads in Rajasthan |
| World Bank | 3000 Crore | finance mini and mega food parks across India |
| World Bank | $250 Million | First Resilient Kerala Program |
| World Bank | $400 Million | To eliminate Tuberculosis by 2025 |
| World Bank | $250 Million | Rajasthan’s roads and highways |
| World Bank | $31.58 Million | Uttarakhand Public Financial Management Strengthening Project |
| World Bank | $147 Million | Urban development in Jharkhand |
| World Bank | $287 Million | Health care reforms in Tamil Nadu |
| ADB | $190 Million | Various projects in Rajasthan |
| ADB | $200 Million | Rural roads in Maharashtra |
| ADB | $750 Million | Indian railway track electrification |
| ADB | $235 Million | Development of Tripura |
Appointments OCTOBER 2019:
| NAME | DESIGNATION |
| Radha Krishna Mathur | Lieutenant Governors of Ladakh |
| Girish Chandra Murmu | Lieutenant Governors of Jammu and Kashmir |
| P S Sreedharan Pillai | Mizoram Governor |
| Surjit S Bhalla | Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund |
| SS Mallikarjuna Rao | MD & CEO of Punjab National Bank |
| Sushil Chandra Mishra | MD & CEO of Oil India Limited |
| P K Gupta | Chairman and MD of National Buildings Construction Corporation |
| K Satish Reddy | President of the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) |
| Anup Kumar Singh | Director-General of the National Security Guard (NSG) |
| Sourav Ganguly | President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) |
| Pankaj Kumar | CEO of UIDAI |
| Arvind Singh | Chairman of Airports Authority of India |
| Sukhbir Singh Sandhu | Chairman National Highways Authority of India |
| Ganji Kamala V Rao | Chairman & MD of India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) Ltd. |
| Pramod Kumar Tiwari | Director General of the Bureau of Indian Standards |
| Dushyant Chautala | Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana |
| Sharad Arvind Bobde | Next Chief Justice of India (47th CJI) |
| Anita Pai | Chief Operating Officer of the Yes Bank |
| Air Marshal Harjit Singh Arora | Vice Chief of the Air Staff |
| KS Dhatwalia | Director General of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) |
Appointments September 2019:
| NAME | DESIGNATION |
| PV Sindhu | brand ambassador of Visa |
| RKS Bhadauria | Next Air Force Chief |
| Justice P Lakshmana Reddy | First Lokayukta of Andhra Pradesh |
| Kristalina Georgieva | New MD of IMF |
| Robert O’Brien | National Security Adviser of US |
| Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan | Governor of Telangana |
| Bhagat Singh Koshyariwas | Governor of Maharashtra |
| Arif Mohammed Khan | Governor of Kerala |
| Bandaru Dattatreya | Governor of Himachal Pradesh |
| Kalraj Mishra | Governor of Rajasthan |
| Sunil Arora | Chairmanship of Association of World Election Bodies |
| Rajiv Kumar | New MD of Microsoft India |
| Ramkumar Ramamoorthy | CMD of Cognizant India |
| Anjali Singh | India’s First Female Military Diplomat |
| Suresh Chitturi | Chairman of the International Egg Commission |
| Vijay Kumar Chopra | Chairman Of PTI |
| Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat | New Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee |
| Manoj Mukund Naravane | Vice Chief of Army Staff |
Appointments August 2019:
| NAME | DESIGNATION |
| Pramod Chander Mody | CBDT Chairman |
| Mrutyunjay Mohapatra | Director General of India Meteorological Department (IMD) |
| Pramod Agarwal | Chairman of Coal India |
| Pavan Kapoor | India’s Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates |
| Ajay Kumar Bhalla | Union Home Secretary |
| Kandikuppa Sreekant | Chairman and Managing Director of Power Grid Corporation of India |
| Rajiv Gauba | Cabinet Secretary |
| Ajay Kumar | Defence Secretary |
| Rakesh Asthana | Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau |
| Chandrima Shaha | President of the Indian National Science Academy |
| Manmohan Singh | Elected to the RajyaSabha from Rajasthan |
| Dutee Chand | Brand ambassador for Puma |
| Ravinder Takkar | CEO of Vodafone Idea |
| Siddhartha Mohanty | MD & CEO of LIC HFL |
| Debashis Chatterjee | MD & CEO of MindTree Ltd |
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