Top GKToday’s News Headlines – 9 August 2019
Here are the top News Headlines of 9 August 2019 for all competitive examinations of India.
National Current Affairs
- 22nd National Conference on e-Governance 2019 (NCeG) being held in Shillong, Meghalaya on August 8-9
- Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel disqualifies rebel AAP MLAs Devinder Sehrawat and Anil Bajpai under the anti-defection law
- Manipur tops rankings in Breastfeeding and Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in the country; UP, Rajasthan Bihar at the bottom
- Pakistan closes Samjhauta Express train service; runs from Delhi to Attari on the Indian side and from Lahore to Wagah on the Pakistan side
- Defence Acquisition Council approves procurement of indigenous SDR, Next Generation Maritime Mobile Coastal Batteries for Indian Navy
- Assam: Sukhoi-30 fighter jet of IAF crashes in Tezpur, both pilots eject safely
Economy & Business Current Affairs
- BSE Sensex: 37,327.36 (+636.86), NSE Nifty: 11,032.45 (+176.95)
- National Electronic Funds Transfer(NEFT) facility will be available round-the-clock for the customers: RBI
- sanctions 5595 electric buses in 64 cities for intracity and intercity operations under 2nd phase of FAME India scheme
- CBDT raises monetary limits for filing of appeals by the Income Tax Department at various tribunals in order to reduce litigation
- Ministry of Information and Broadcasting launches e-version of ‘Rozgar Samachar’
- Tenure of SBI MD Dinesh Kumar Khara extended by two years from August 9
- ADB to provide USD 200 million loan for improving road infrastructure in 34 districts of Maharashtra
International Current Affairs
- International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples observed on August 9 with its theme as ‘Indigenous Languages’
- UN observing 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages
- Shah Rukh Khan honoured with the Excellence in Cinema award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM)
Sports Current Affairs
- South Africa’s Hashim Amla retires from cricket at 36; made 9,282 runs in 124 Test matches & 8,113 runs in 181 ODIs
- World Archery suspends the Archery Association of India for defying its guidelines by electing two parallel bodies