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  • Current Affairs 30th May 2019

    Updated : 30-May-2019

    Current Affairs 30th May 2019 - Important Points

    • Who all leaders will be there in PM Modi’s swearing-in ceremony ?
    • Sadananda Gowda, Harsimrat Kaur, Arvind Sawant likely to be in new Council of - 17th Lok Sabha
    • Who all are the new council ministers of 2019 Lok Sabha election ?
    • What is the rank of India in IMD World Competitiveness Rankings-2019 ? - 43rd Rank
      Current Affairs 30th May 2019 - Details

    Who all leaders will be there in PM Modi’s swearing-in ceremony ?

    Mr. Narendra Modi will be taking oath for his second term as Prime Minister on 30th May. The oath-taking ceremony will be attended by the leaders of the the President of Kyrgyzstan, BIMSTEC Member Countries, Sooronbay Jeenbekov,  and Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth.

    After receiving the formal invitation from India, BIMSTEC countries leaders along with  Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov and Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth have also confirmed their attendance at the oath-taking ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on  30th May.

    Important Highlights

    • Bangladeshi President Abdul Hamid, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov, and Myanmarese President U Win Myint will  also be attending the ceremony to be held this evening.
    • Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering and Thailand’s Special Enovy Grisada Boonrach will also be seen  witnessing the ceremony.

    Sadananda Gowda, Harsimrat Kaur, Arvind Sawant likely to be in new Council of - 17th Lok Sabha

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be sworn-in soon along with his new Council of Ministers. President Ram Nath Kovind will  be administering the Oath of Office and Secrecy to Modi and his new Council of Ministers in a function at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi. The BIMSTEC Member Countries, Sooronbay Jeenbekov, the President of Kyrgyzstan and Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth will be attending this ceremony. 

    The BIMSTEC leaders most likely to be seen in the ceremony are Bangladeshi President Abdul Hamid, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, Myanmarese President U Win Myint, Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering and Thailand’s Special Enovy Grisada Boonrach.

    Who all are the new council ministers of 2019 Lok Sabha election ?

    List of new Council of Ministers 2019 is announced and there are several ministers who have retained the cabinet ministry.

    Below is the complete list of Cabinet and State ministers 2019

    Cabinet Ministers

    1  Narendra Modi

    2  Amit Shah

    3  Rajnath Singh

    4  Nitin Gadkari

    5  Nirmala Sitharaman

    6  Smriti  Zubin Irani

    7  S Jaishankar

    8  Ravi Shankar Prasad

    9  D.V. Sadananda Gowda

    10  Harsimrat Kaur Badal

    11  Mahendra Nath Pandey

    12  Arvind Sawant

    13  Prahlad Joshi

    14  Piyush Goyal

    15  Prakash Javadekar

    16  Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

    17  Ram Vilas Paswan

    18  Thawar Chand Gehlot

    19  Giriraj Singh

    20  Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

    21  Santosh Gangwar

    22  Arjun Munda

    23  Dr Harshavardhan

    24  Dharmendra Pradhan

    25  Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank

    Minister of State

    1  Shripad Naik

    2  Kiran Rijiju

    3  Jitendra Singh

    4  Hardeep Singh Puri

    5  Rattan Lal Kataria

    6  Mansukh Mandaviya

    7  Rao Inderjit Singh

    8  Raj Kumar Singh

    9  Prahlad Singh Patel

    10  Arjun Ram Meghwal

    11  Ashwini Kumar Chaubey

    12  Faggan Kulaste

    13  Raosaheb Danve

    14  Krishan Pal Gurjar

    15  General (Retd) VK Singh

    16  Gangapuram Kishan Reddy

    17  Purushottam Rupala

    18  Ramdas Athawale

    19  Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti

    20  Babul Supriyo

    21  Sanjeev Balyan

    22  Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre

    23  Anurag Thakur

    24  Suresh Angadi

    25  Nityanand Rai

    26  Rattan Lal Kataria

    27  V Muraleedharan

    28  Renuka Singh

    29  Som Parkash

    30  Rameswar Teli

    31  Pratap Chandra Sarangi

    32  Barmer Kailash Choudhary

    33 Debasree Chaudhuri

    Did you know?

    President elects the ministers with the advice of Prime Minister under Article 75 (1) of the Constitution of India

    What is the rank of India in IMD World Competitiveness Rankings-2019 ? - 43rd Rank

    India is ranked 43 as  most competitive economy in the world in IMD World Competitiveness Rankings for 2019.   So far Singapore is at first place, whereas US has slipped to third place and India has moved one level up as compared to the last  declared ranking.

    Major Highlights

    •    This IMD World Competitiveness Ranking involve 235 indicators from each of the 63 ranked economies.
    •    Hong Kong SAR  has secured second place.
    •    Switzerland is at the fourth place.
    •    The UAE has entered the top five for the first time earlier back in 2016 it was ranked 15th.
    •    Venezuela is still at 63rd  rank which is the bottom of the ranking due to inflation, poor access to credit and a weak economy in the country.