Banking & SSC 18th Dec Imp Current Affairs 2019 - Prasad's Banking, SSC & CDS Coaching Institute, Bangalore

Two Separate trials of Supersonic cruise missile BrahMos Conducted, One each from land and air platforms near Balasore in Odisha
CBI officer B. P. Raju wins ‘India Cyber Cop of the Year 2019’ award given by NASSCOM-DSCI
Home Minister Amit Shah presides over the foundation stone laying Ceremony of Bharat Vandana Park in New Delhi

India ranks 112th (108th in previous Ranking) among 153 Countries WEF’s Global Gender Gap Report 2020; Iceland remains world’s most gender-neutral country
49 journalists murdered worldwide in 2019, lowest toll in 16 years: Reporters Without Borders
China launches its second aircraft carrier ‘Shandong’ in South China Sea
Pakistan’s former dictator General Pervez Musharraf Sentenced to death in absentia in the high treason case for subverting the Constitution in 2007
Bangladesh Releases listing of collaborators (known as Razakars) who helped Pakistan during the Liberation War of 1971
Collins Dictionary names ‘climate strike’ as its word of the year, defining it as “a form of protest in which people absent

TRAI extends six paise per minute IUC (Interconnection Usage Charges) to other Networks till Dec 31, 2020
Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Launches National Broadband Mission; broadband access to be provided to all villages by 2022
MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari Launches Sale of ‘Khadi Rumal’ (napkin), made by militancy-affected families of Kashmir
Complaints to banking Ombudsman rise by 19.75% to over 1.96 lakh during 2018-19: RBI
Smartphone maker realme Launches its financial services platform ‘realme Paysa’

Australia’s Ellyse Perry wins Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year
England Cricketer Ben Stokes named BBC Sports Personality of the Year