RRB English Current Affairs 21st January 2019

INDIAN AFFAIRS

1. PM Narendra Modi Inaugurates Country’s First National Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai
2. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharamaninaugurated the 426 metres long Diffo Bridge over Chipu River in Lower Dibang Valley District of Arunachal Pradesh.
3. Government approved Setting up of Three Naval air Squadrons in Gujarat and TamilNadu.
4. 25th International conference and exhibition on terrestrial and satellite broadcasting, BES EXPO 2019was inaugurated by the Information and Broadcasting Secretary Amit Khare and TRAI Chairman RS Sharma in New Delhi.
5. Odisha Chief Minister, Shri Naveen Patnaikannounced the extension of free health services under Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana(BSKY) to all medical colleges and hospitals of Odisha
6. Agri-Vision 2019, a two-day conference on ‘Envisioning Agro Solutions for Smart and Sustainable Agriculture’ at Hyderabad
7. Indian Air Force AN-32 transport aircraft landed on the Sikkim’s first airport and one of the highest airfields of the country, Pakyong Airport.

BANKING &  FINANCE

8. Group insolvency: UK Sinha-headed working group to suggest suitable framework

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

9. BHEL and LIBCOIN to Build India’s First Lithium Ion Giga Factory

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

10. Indian-American Gurinder Singh Khalsa,presented with the prestigious Rosa Park Trailblazer award

APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNS

11. Reserve Bankof India (RBI) approved the appointment of V Vaidyanathan as MD and CEO of IDFC First Bank for a period of three years.
12. Sweden ended a four-month political vacuum when lawmakers elected 61 years old Swedish Social Democratic Party’s leader Stefan Lofven as the Prime Minister of Sweden for a second term.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

13. First in India:HAL-built light combat helicopter completes air-to-air weapon trials
14. ISRO announced that two unmanned space missions to be launched in the year 2020 and 2021.

ENVIRONMENT

15. A Volcano was erupted on Mount Shindakeon Kuchinoerabu island of Japan which spewed ash and smoke up to 6000 metres into the air.

OBITUARY

16. INLD MLA Jaswinder Sandhu passes away in Haryana