Current Affairs 30th 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.