CURRENT AFFAIRS ( 2nd APRIL )

NATIONAL NEWS

• Home Affairs Ministry extended “distributed area” tag under Armed Forces Special Powers

• Act (AFSPA) for three districts of Arunachal Pradesh for another six months-Trap, Changlang and longing.

• Kandhamal Haldi (a variety of turmeric indigenous to southern odisha) earned Geographical indication (GI) tag.

• GST collections scaled to a record high of Rs 1.06 Lakh crores in March 2019, attributed to increase compliance to other turmeric varieties.

• Telangana ranked at top in e-learning training, by reaching to 20,000 field staff during 2018- 19 as 2nd year in succession that state got the distribution under Department of Personal and Training (DoPT).

ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL AWARENESS

• RBI dilutes NPA divergence rules for banks to divergence when the additional provisioning for NPAs assessed by RBI exceeds 10% instead of the earlier  rule of 15% of the reported profit before provisions and contingencies for the reference period.

•  BNP Paribas Cardif sold 5 crore shares in SBI life insurance for 2889 crore.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

•  Japan has unveiled its New imperial Era name called “Reiwa”

APPOINTMENTS & RESIGN

• Google India head Rajan Anandan resigns.

• Satish Magar appointed new national president of confederation of real Estate.

• Developers’ Association of Indian (CREDAI), apex body of private real estate developers in India.

• Rakesh Malhotra appointed as Higher commissioner of India to republic of Cameroon.

 SPORTS

• Indian Clinches 25 Medals in 12th Asian Arigun Champion 2019 held in Chinese Taipei.

• India wins ICC Test Champion Mace for 3 rd straight year.

OBITUARY

Tamil Director J Mahendran passed away at the age of 79.