CURRENT AFFAIRS One Liner
AUGUST -2019
ONE Liner
PERSONS IN NEWS
# Who has become the first fighter pilot to qualify to undertake combat missions? – Bhawana Kanth
# Who has been elected as a member of the InternationalOlympic Committee (IOC) by the executive board
of the world sport’s apex body? – Narinder Batra
# Shivappa Shetty was passed away at the age of 86. He was associated with which of the following sports? – Football
# Rallapalli Venkata Narasimha Rao has passed away at the age of 74. He was a ……. – Telugu actor
# Jeffrey Rosen has been appointed as deputy attorney general of which country? – USA
# Who has been re-elected to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) for another term? – Jagjit Pavadia
# Seymour Nurse has passed away at the age of 85. He was a batsman from which countries? – West Indies
# Glenmark Pharmaceuticals appointed ………. as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Glenmark Life Sciences. – Yasir Rawjee
# Veteran CPI leader and former Lok Sabha member has passed away recently. – Duti Krushna Pandey
# Renowned …………. Baidyanath Mishra died at the age of 99. – Economist
# Mrinal Mukherjee died at the age of 74. Who was he? – Film and TV actor
# Sahitya Akademi awardee Thoppil Mohamed Meeran died at the age of 74. He was the writer of which language?– Tamil
# Who is appointed as country director in India by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation? – M. Hari Menon
# Roshan Taneja passed away at the age of 87. Who was he? – Acting guru
The summit will take place from July 7-8 in its capital Niamey.
AWARDS
# Jokha Alharthi has won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for her book “Celestial Bodies”. She belongs to which country? – Oman
# Former foreign secretary Shyam Saran will be conferred with ‘the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and
Silver Star’. This award is given by country? – Japan
# Who was honoured with the ‘Global Asian of the Year 2018-19′ award? – Hema Diwakar
# US President Donald Trump bestowed with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. – Tiger Woods
# G D ‘Robert’ Govender has been honoured in the UK with 2019 V K Krishna Menon award. Who is he?
– An Indian Journalist
# Hi-Tech Pipes Limited has received “Top Performer Award” for being one among the largest customer for
Hot Rolled Coils. It was incorporated in which year? – 1985
# Which company has appointed its Managing Director Sanjiv Puri as Chairman and Managing Director of the company? – P&G
# A K Sikri has been appointed as the chairperson of the News Broadcasting Standards Authority. He was
former ……….. – Supreme court Judge
# Ram Nihor Rakesh died at the age of 82. He was a senior leader of which of the following political parties? – Congress
# Dinesh Pangtey has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of ………… – LIC mutual fund
# Council of European Chambers of Commerce (CEUCC) in India and European Union (EU) delegation honoured which indian actor for promoting Children’s Rights? – Anil Kapoor
# A Book “The Barefoot Coach” is authored by former mental conditioning coach of Indian Cricket team – Paddy Upton
