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• South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will be the Chief guest at India's Republic Day celebrations on 26 January 2019.
• The celebrations are held every year before the President of India.
• In 2018, the Chief Guest at Republic Day celebrations were the 10 heads of state from ASEAN countries.
• The Chief guest at India's first Republic Day on 26 January 1950 was the President of Indonesia.

• The World Environment Day is observed on 5 June every year and the theme for 2019 was Air pollution.
• Every World Environment Day has a different host country and this year's host country was China.
• It is a United Nations day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment and began in 1974.
• India launched its Hawa Aane De campaign to raise awareness about the rising air pollution among the people. It was released by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
• Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change-Prakash Javadekar​

The G20 Annual Summit for the year 2019 is going to be held in Osaka, Japan on June 28-29, 2019.

The correct answer is Saudi Arabia.

Key Points

• The FATF is an intergovernmental organization on the initiative of the G7 to develop policies to combat money laundering.
• The FATF was founded in 1989.
• The Financial Action Task Force is also known by its French name "Groupe d'action Financiere (GAFI)".
• FATF has maintained the FATF blacklist and the FATF greylist since 2000.
• Turkey and Israel are also members of FATF.
• FATF had 39 full members, comprising 37 member jurisdictions and 2 regional organizations as of 2019.

Additional Information 

• Some important members of FATF are following:-
• India
• United States
• Japan
• Australia
• Belgium
• Brazil
• Austria
• Canada
• China
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Denmark
• Greece

Sri Lanka & China have signed a tripartite agreement to proceed with the construction of a mega multi billion dollar port city project in capital Colombo. The agreement was signed between SL Urban Development Authority, the Ministry of Megapolis & the China Harbour Engineering Company. The project would transform Sri Lanka into an international financial hub in the Indian Ocean region.

The correct answer is 4 January:

• World Braille Day is observed on January 4 every year on the birth anniversary of Louis Braille.
• The inventor of Braille, Louis Braille was born in 1809 in France on January 4.
• In November 2018, the General Assembly decided to proclaim 4 January as World Braille Day, recognizing that the full realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms relies on an inclusive written promotion.
• Braille is a tactile representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots to represent each letter and number, and even musical, mathematical and scientific symbols.
• It is used by blind and partially sighted people to read the same books and periodicals as those printed in a visual font.

• China has become the sole contender to host the Asian Cup Football tournament in 2023.
• The announcement came after South Korea has announced to withdraw its bid to host the game.
• The 2023 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup will be the 18^th edition of the AFC Asian Cup.
• It is organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
• The tournament will involve 24 national teams.

• Tennis player Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open Men's Singles title at Melbourne on 27 January 2019.
• He defeated Rafael Nadal in the final match.
• It was his 7^th Australian Open Men's Singles title.
• He won the Australian Open Men's Singles title in 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2016.
• He also broke a tie with Pete Sampras, for third-most Grand Slam trophies.

The correct answer is option 2) i.e. Karambir Singh.

• Admiral Karambir Singh is the 24^th and current Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy.
• He replaced Sunil Lanba on May 31, 2019.
• He was born in Jalandhar on 3^rd November 1959.
• He got Param Vishisht Seva Medal and Ati Vishisht Seva Medal.

• The focus of World No Tobacco Day 2019 is on "tobacco and lung health."
• The campaign will increase awareness on the negative impact that tobacco has on people’s lung health, from cancer to chronic respiratory disease, the fundamental role lungs play for the health and well-being of all people.
• The campaign also serves as advocating for a effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption.