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India becomes second largest steel producer

India overtook Japan to

become the second-

largest steel producer in

the world after China in

2016, according to data

released by the

International Stainless

Steel Forum (ISSF).

India’s stainless steel production rose to 3.32

million tons for 2016 showing an impressive

growth of about 9% over 3.0 million tons

achieved in 2015.

Petroleum Minister co chairs India OPEC

Institutional Dialogue at Vienna

The Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum and

Natural Gas, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan visited

Vienna, Austria to co-chair the 2nd India-OPEC

Institutional Dialogue at the OPEC headquarters.

The meeting took place two days prior to the

OPEC Ministerial meeting that is scheduled

from 25th May.

Pradhan held a one-to-one meeting with the

Secretary General of OPEC Mr Mohammad

Sanusi Barkindo.

It was agreed that India will host the next

meeting during 2018.

Points to Remember

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting

Countries (OPEC) is an intergovernmental

organization of 13 nations as of 2017, founded

in 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members

(Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela),

and headquartered since 1965 in Vienna.

As of 2015, the 13 countries accounted for an

estimated 42 percent of global oil production and

73 percent of the world's "proven" oil reserves.

As of January 2017, OPEC's members are

Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Gabon, Iran, Iraq,

Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia (the

de facto leader), United Arab Emirates, and

Venezuela, while Indonesia is a former member.

Mohammed Barkindo is the Secretary General

of OPEC.

3rd RCEP Inter-sessional Ministerial Meeting

Commerce and Industry Minister Smt. Nirmala

Sitharaman led the Indian delegation to the 3rd

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

(RCEP) Inter-sessional Ministerial Meeting on 21-

22 May 2017 in Hanoi in which Trade Ministers of

15 other RCEP countries participated.

Trade Minister and Industry Minister of

Philippines Mr Ramon Lopez, was the Chair of

the Meeting as Philippines is currently holding

the Presidency of ASEAN this year and Minister

of Industry and Trade of Vietnam, Mr Tran Tuan

Anh, as the host extended a warm welcome to

the delegates.

So far 4 Ministerial Meetings, 3 Inter-sessional

Ministerial Meetings and 18 Rounds of the Trade

Negotiating Committee at the technical level

have been held.

Points to Remember

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

(RCEP) is a proposed free trade agreement

(FTA) between the ten member states of the

Association of Southeast Asian Nations

(ASEAN) (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,

Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore,

Thailand, Vietnam) and the six states with which

ASEAN has existing free trade agreements

(Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and

New Zealand).

RCEP negotiations were formally launched in

November 2012 at the ASEAN Summit in

Cambodia.

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Japan to build war museum in Manipur

Japan is going to build a war museum at the hillock

at Maiba Lokpa in Bishnupur district, Manipur,

where a Japanese camp was located during World

War II.

The Japanese ambassador to India, Kenji

Hiramatsu, said about 70,000 Japanese soldiers

had died in battles from March to June 1944 in

Imphal and Kohima.

Nepal PM Prachanda resigned

Nepal Prime Minister

Pushpa Kamal Dahal

'Prachanda' has

resigned paving way

for Nepali Congress

President Sher

Bahadur Deuba to

become the next Prime Minister.

The resignation is to honour an accord signed in

August last year when Prachanda was elected the

Prime Minister with Deuba's support.

Both Prachanda and Deuba had agreed to run the

government on a rotational basis until elections

to Parliament were held in February 2018, as per

constitutional obligations.

Tajmahal among top 10 global landmarks

Taj Mahal, the magnificent monument of love, has

made it to the top 10 landmarks in the world by

securing fifth position in the list.

One of the most iconic wonders in the world, the

Agra- based imposing white marble structure, a

tourist delight, is the only Indian monument to

figure in the world's top 10 Travellers' Choice

awards for Landmarks.

Angkor Wat in Siem Reap (Cambodia) topped

the list followed by Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

Center in Abu Dhabi (UAE), Mezquita

Cathedral de Cordoba in Cordoba (Spain) and St

Peter's Basilica in Vatican City (Italy).

Indians issued maximum work visas to UK in

2016

Indian nationals were issued the maximum number

of skilled work visas to live and work in the UK last

year, according to statistics released.

Indians accounted for 58 per cent of the total

skilled work visas granted last year -- 53,863 of

a total of 93,566.

Americans were the second largest community

with 9,255 visas.

Mumbai, Kota among world's most crowded

cities

Two Indian cities - Mumbai and Kota - have been

named among the world's most crowded in a list

topped by Dhaka, said the World Economic Forum

(WEF), citing UN-Habitat data.

With a population density of 44,500 people per

square kilometre, Dhaka, the capital of

Bangladesh, is the most crowded city on the

planet, followed by India's financial capital

Mumbai, home to 31,700 people per square

kilometre at the second place.

Kota in Rajasthan with 12,100 people per square

kilometre was ranked seventh.

G7 Summit begins in Italy

The two-day G7 Summit, that will focus on issues

surrounding security and growth, began on 26

May in Italy.

Those participating in the Taormina Summit

include German Chancellor Angela Merkel,

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US

President Donald Trump and French President

Emmanuel Macron, along with the Prime

Ministers of Italy, Japan and the UK, Paolo

Gentiloni, Shinzo Abe and Theresa May

respectively.

European Commission President Jean-Claude

Juncker and European Council President Donald

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Tusk will be representing the European Union at

the summit.

Indo-Thailand Siam Bharat 17: HADR

Indo-Thailand Humanitarian Assistance and

Disaster Relief (HADR) Table Top Exercise 2017 is

in progress at Chiang Mai, Thailand from 22 May to

26 May 17 between the Indian Air Force and Royal

Thailand Air Force (RTAF).

This is second such exercise to be conducted

between the two Air Forces.

The aim of the bilateral exercise is to evolve

SOPs for planning and executing relief missions

during unforeseen natural calamities like

Tsunami, earthquakes, cyclones, floods etc.

NATO Leaders’ Meeting 2017 held in Belgium

The NATO Leaders’ Meeting 2017 was held at

NATO’s new Headquarters in Belgium, Brussels.

Canada, along with 11 other countries, founded

NATO in 1949 on the fundamental values of

democracy, individual liberty, human rights, and

the rule of law.

Next summit will be held in Istanbul, Turkey.

Apple opens first official store in Southeast Asia

Apple opened its first Southeast Asia store in

Singapore 27 May 2017.

Located on the affluent Orchard Road, the new

shop is expected to be one of the most popular

Apple stores in the world according to the US

tech giant.

Modi becomes most followed world leader on

Facebook

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the top

followed leader on Facebook globally.

According to data shared exclusively by

Facebook, Modi's Facebook Page has more

followers than Donald Trump.

The data also shows that Digital India, Make in

India and Swachh Bharat are the most engaged

campaigns that have been run by the

government.

India announces $500 million assistance to

Mauritius

India has announced

a $500 million line

of credit to

Mauritius as the two

countries resolved to

deepen ties in a

range of areas including the maritime domain.

The two countries also signed a maritime

security agreement after extensive talks between

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his

Mauritian counterpart Pravind Jugnauth.

A total of four agreements were signed after the

talks between the two leaders.

Chilean President inaugurates construction of

world's largest telescope

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet inaugurated the

construction of the world's largest optical and

infrared telescope, to be located at the Paranal

Observatory in the Antofagasta region.

The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-

ELT) will be built in collaboration with the

European Southern Observatory (ESO), the

leading intergovernmental astronomic

organisation in Germany.

India-Pacific islands conference held in Fiji

The External Affairs Ministry hosted the 'India-

Pacific Islands Sustainable Development

Conference in Suva, Fiji, on May 25-26.

The conference was held under the framework of

the Forum for India Pacific Islands Cooperation

(Fipic) with The Energy and Resources Institute

(TERI) as the key knowledge partner.

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Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh

hosted ministers from the 14 Pacific Island

countries at the conference.

The two-day conference was focused on issues

such as the blue economy, adaptation-mitigation

practices for climate change, disaster

preparedness, health, the India-initiated

International Solar Alliance as well as finding

practical solutions to Nationally Determined

Contributions (NDC) implementation.

International Day of United Nations

Peacekeepers: 29 May

The International Day of United Nations

Peacekeepers, May 29, is “a day to pay tribute to all

the men and women who have served and continue

to serve in United Nations peacekeeping operations.

The theme for the 2017 International Day of UN

Peacekeepers is “Investing in Peace Around the

World.”

India participated in global disaster risk

reduction meet in Mexico

India has participated in a five-day long Global

Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR)

summit held in Mexico.

An Indian delegation led by Minister of State for

Home Kiren Rijiju went for the summit.

The summit, held at Mexico’s Cancun between

May 22 and 26, was attended by over 5,000

delegates comprising heads of state, ministers

and CEOs.

The GPDRR is a global forum for strategic

advice, coordination, partnership development

and review of progress in the implementation of

the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk

Reduction (SFDRR) 2015-2030 which was

adopted at the 3rd UN World conference on

disaster risk reduction held in March 2015 in

Sendai, Japan.

43rd G-7 summit held in Italy

The 43rd G7 summit was held on May 26–27, 2017

in Taormina, Sicily, Italy.

The 43rd G7 summit was the first summit for

British Prime Minister Theresa May, French

President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime

Minister Paolo Gentiloni, and U.S. President

Donald Trump.

It was the first time since 1987 that the G7

summit held in Italy was not hosted by Silvio

Berlusconi.

Points to Remember

The Group of 7 (G7) is a group consisting of

Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the

United Kingdom and the United States. The

European Union is also represented within the

G7.

In March 2014, the G7 declared that a

meaningful discussion was currently not

possible with Russia in the context of the G8.

Since then, meetings have continued within the

G7 process.

Next G-7 Summit will be held in Canada in

2018.

5th India Morocco Joint Commission Meeting

(JCM)

The 5th India Morocco

Joint Commission

Meeting (JCM) was

held in Rabat on 25 and

26 May 2017.

The JCM was

anchored by Smt Nirmala Sitharaman,

Commerce and Industry Minister.

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed

for Cooperation on Broadcasting between Prasar

Bharati, India and Société Nationale de

Radiodiffusion et de Télévision (SNRT),

Morocco.

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World No Tobacco Day: 31 May

World No Tobacco Day

(WNTD) is observed

around the world every

year on May 31.

It is intended to

encourage a 24-hour

period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco

consumption around the globe.

The theme for World No Tobacco Day 2017 is

"Tobacco – a threat to development."

First women's TV channel launched in

Afghanistan

Women in Afghanistan now have their own

television channel.

Zan - or Women's - TV began airing this month,

with a staff of all female presenters and

producers.

It's being seen as a groundbreaking step for

women's rights, in a country still dominated by

men.

India ranks 120th among 131 nations in women

workforce

In its India Development Report released recently,

the World Bank said the country had one of the

lowest female participation in the workforce,

ranking 120th among 131 countries.

Jobs for Indian women remain primarily in the

agriculture sector.

The share of women in services and industry is

less than 20%.

Mumbai is the world’s busiest single-runway

airport

The GVK group-run Mumbai airport has become the

world's busiest amongst the single-runway facilities

by handling 837 flights a day or one in 65 seconds

on an average in fiscal 2017, taking over London's

Gatwick airport that had 757 flights a day.

In terms of the number of passengers also, the

city airport tops with 45.2 million people flying

in and out in fiscal 2017 as against 44 million at

Gatwick airport.

Notably, no other large city in the world is

served by one airport, that too with a single-

runway.

Bandaru Duttatreya to attend G20 Labour &

Employment Ministers’ Meet

Bandaru Duttatreya, the Minister of State

(Independent Charge) for Labour & Employment

will be leading the Indian delegation to the G20

Labour & Employment Ministers’ Meet, scheduled

on 18-19, May, 2017 at Bad Neuenahr, Germany.

Germany is the chair for the G20 Labour &

Employment Ministers’ for the year 2017.

A G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial

Declaration is likely to be adopted at the end of

this meeting, which will be presented to the

Leaders/ Head of the State summit scheduled on

7-8th July, 2017 Hamburg, Germany.

India second most attractive renewable energy

investment destination: EY

India has overtaken the US to become the second-

most attractive country after China for renewable

energy investment, according to a report by UK

accountancy firm EY.

In an annual ranking of the top 40 renewable

energy markets worldwide in terms of allure,

China was ranked at the top, followed by India.

The US slipped to the third spot from the first in

the last year's ranking, EY said.

India was ranked third on the last year's EY

renewable energy country attractiveness index

(RECAI) behind the US and China.

Japan world leader in life expectancy: WHO

Australia is one of the "world leaders" for life

expectancy, ranked only behind Japan, Singapore

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and Switzerland, according to the World Health

Organisation's (WHO) latest world health check.

The data was taken from 194 WHO members,

Xinhua news agency reported.

India's Healthcare Ranks Below Bangladesh And

Sri Lanka: Study

Despite making giant leaps in medicine, India

continues to be at the bottom in the ranking of

countries in terms of quality and accessibility of

healthcare.

According to the new Global Burden of Disease

study published in the Lancet, while South

Korea, Turkey, Peru, China and the Maldives

have seen some of the greatest improvements in

healthcare access and quality since the 1990s,

India has failed to achieve most of the healthcare

goals.

India ranked at 154 with an score of 44.8 in the

list of 195 countries.

China is far ahead of India ranking at 82 with a

score of 74 on the index. Sri Lanka has scored 73

on the index, whereas Brazil and Bangladesh

have score 65 and 52, respectively.

Andorra scored the highest score (94.6) while

Central African Republic had the lowest (28.6).

Rank of India Improves in International Tourist

Arrivals

As per the UNWTO definition, International Tourist

Arrivals (ITAs) comprises two components namely

Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) and Arrivals of

Non-Resident Nationals.

The UNWTO in its barometer ranks countries in

terms of their ITAs.

So far only the figures of FTAs were compiled

in India. However, now India has started

compiling the data arrivals of Non-Resident

Indians (NRIs), also.

As per the latest UNWTO Barometer for March

2017, Rank of India in International Tourist

Arrivals in both 2014 and 2015 is 24 as against

the previous rank of 41 and 40 in the year 2014

and 2015, respectively.

With this inclusion the share of India in the ITAs

has also increased from 0.68% (based on FTAs)

to 1.12% in the year 2015.

Jordan’s Azraq refugee camp becomes first to

run entirely on solar energy

A refugee camp in Jordan has become the first in the

world to be powered by renewable energy.

About 20,000 Syrian refugees living in the

desert camp of Azraq will be able to

use electricity generated by a solar plant.

The new $9.6m two-megawatt solar plant was

built by the Ikea Foundation’s Brighter Lives for

Refugees campaign and is expected to save

$1.5m a year, which the United Nations High

Commissioner for Refugees will be able to use

to improve sanitation, shelters and organise

activities around the camp.

International Museum Day: 18 May

International Museum Day

(IMD) is an international

day a celebration that held

every year on 18 May,

coordinated by the

International Council of

Museums (ICOM).

The theme of International Museum Day 2017 is

“Museums and contested histories: Saying the

unspeakable in museums”.

Finland to Host 2017 Arctic Energy Summit

Finland has agreed to host the 2017 Arctic Energy

Summit as the first major event of their Arctic

Council Chairmanship, which runs 2017 to 2019.

The Arctic Energy Summit was last held in

Fairbanks in 2015.

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In Finland, the Summit will build on past work,

highlight the Finnish Chairmanship and 100th

Anniversary.

The Summit will take place at Finlandia Hall,

18-20 September 2017.

Jaipur Literature Festival kicked off in London

The Jaipur Literature Festival

was inaugurated in London to

present a sumptuous

showcase of South Asias

literary heritage, oral and

performing arts, books and

ideas, dialogue and debate.

The British Library, the second largest library in

the world by number of items catalogued, played

host to the annual festival as part of the wider

UK-India Year of Culture celebrations.

Indian High Commissioner to the UK

Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha opened the two-day

events proceedings at the world- famous library.

International Day for Biological Diversity: 22

May

The International Day for Biological Diversity (or

World Biodiversity Day) is a United Nations–

sanctioned international day for the promotion of

biodiversity issues. It is held on May 22.

The International Day for Biological Diversity

falls within the scope of the UN Post-2015

Development Agenda's Sustainable

Development Goals.

Theme for the year 2017 is “Biodiversity and

Sustainable Tourism”.

World Metrology Day: 20 May

World Metrology Day has become an annual

celebration since the Meter Convention was signed

by representatives of seventeen countries on May

20, 1875.

The convention set the framework for

international collaboration in the science of

measurement including its industrial,

commercial and societal applications.

The theme for World Metrology Day 2017 is

“Measurements for transport”.

India Ranks Third Highest Globally In Internal

Displacement Numbers: Report

Nearly 2.4 million people in India were internally

displaced due to conflict, violence and disasters in

2016, the third highest number globally, a new

report by a UN monitoring centre said.

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

and the Norwegian Refugee Council released a

new report which ranked India third among

countries most affected by displacement related

to disasters followed by China and the

Philippines.

It said that conflict, violence and disasters

caused 31.1 million new internal displacements

in 2016.

The highest displacements were recorded in

China with 7.4 million people getting impacted,

followed by the Philippines (5.9 million), India

(2.4 million) and Indonesia (1.2 million).

World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day: 8 May

World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is an annual

celebration of the principles of the International Red

Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

World Red Cross Red Crescent Day is celebrated

on 8 May each year.

This date is the anniversary of the birth of Henry

Dunant (born 8 May 1828), the founder of

International Committee of the Red Cross

(ICRC) and the recipient of the first Nobel Peace

Prize.

This year’s theme is “Less Known Red Cross

Stories”.

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India hold festival in Egypt to mark

Rabindranath Tagore's birth anniversary

India is organising a cultural festival in Egypt to

mark the 156th birth anniversary of the famous

Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore.

Tagore Festival which is being organised by the

Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture

(MACIC), the cultural wing of the Indian

Embassy in Cairo, from May 8-12 will feature a

dance show, film screening, a play and painting

competition.

On May 8, the movie 'Kabuliwala' directed by

Hemen Gupta will be screened at the Hanager

Cinema, Opera House Complex.

The movie is based on a novel written by Tagore

about an immigrant from Kabul who forms a

bond with a young girl in India who reminds him

of his daughter in Afghanistan.

The Tagore Festival is organised in cooperation

with the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, Cairo

Opera House, Cultural Production Sector,

Dancers’ Guild and the Indian Community

Association in Egypt.

Points to Remember

Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize

for Literature in 1913.

He was the first non-European to win this

prestigious award, in recognition for his

collection of poems, 'Gitanjali'.

Jordan, US launch ‘Eager Lion’ military exercise

Jordan and the United

States kicked off

Eager Lion, an annual

military exercise with

about 7,400 troops

from more than 20 nations taking part.

US and Jordanian officials said the manoeuvres

would include border security, cyber defence,

and "command and control" exercises, to bolster

coordination in response to threats including

terrorism.

A statement by the Jordanian army said troops

from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Arab Gulf

region are taking part in the exercises which run

to May 18, including from Britain, Japan, Kenya

and Saudi Arabia.

India unanimously elected to head UN-Habitat

India has been unanimously elected as the President

of the UN-Habitat, an organ of the United Nations’

Organisation (UNO) that promotes socially and

environmentally sustainable human settlements

across the world, after 10 years.

UN-Habitat reports to the United Nations

General Assembly.

Further to election, Minister of Housing &

Urban Poverty Alleviation M.Venkaiah Naidu

will chair the four day meeting of the 58 member

Governing Council of UN-Habitat in Nairobi,

Kenya.

Naidu will preside over the deliberations of the

Governing Council of UN-Habitat for the next

two years.

Since the UN-Habitat came into being in

1978, It is only the third time that India has

been elected to lead this important organization

after 2007 and 1988.

India, Australia bilateral naval exercise next

month

India and Australia will hold their second bilateral

naval exercise next month off the coast of Western

Australia.

The first-ever such exercise, called AUSINDEX,

was held in September, 2015 in the Bay of

Bengal.

Australia's High Commissioner to India

Harinder Sidhu, during an interaction with

journalists, also emphasised that bilateral ties

have seen a "steady upward trajectory" and

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's recent visit

here has "injected a fresh momentum" in the

relationship.

29th India- Indonesia Co-Ordinated Patrol

(Corpat) Commences

The 29th series of India–Indonesia CORPAT is

scheduled from 09 – 25 May 17 with the opening

ceremony being conducted from 09 -12 May 17 at

Port Blair under the aegis of Andaman and Nicobar

Command.

The Indonesian Naval Ship KRI Sutedi

Senoputra has arrived at Haddo Wharf, Port

Blair to mark the commencement of the 29th

series of IND–INDO CORPAT.

The closing ceremony of the CORPAT is

scheduled at Belawan, Indonesia from 22 – 25

May 17.

Under the broad ambit of this strategic

partnership, Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) and the

Indian Navy have been carrying out coordinated

patrolling twice a year since 2002 near the

International Maritime Boundary Line to keep

this part of the Indian Ocean region safe and

secure for commercial shipping and

international trade.

World Migratory Bird Day: 10th May

World Migratory

Bird Day 2017 was

observed on 10 May

2017.

It aims to

highlight the interdependence of people and

nature, and more specifically people and

migratory birds, as they share the same planet

and the same limited resources.

The theme of WMBD 2017 is “Their Future is

Our Future – A Healthy Planet for Migratory

Birds and People”.

Bengaluru Tops List of World’s Most Affordable

Tech Cities

Bengaluru has been named the world’s most

affordable tech city in the new Savills Tech Cities

Index.

The Indian technology hub is the most affordable

out of 22 cities that were graded on different

parameters.

While the per-week rent is $236 (roughly Rs

15,000) in the city as compared to the global

average of $368 (almost Rs 24,000), the city

ranked 20th overall, losing points on time taken

for commutes.

The city which ranked first overall was Austin,

Texas while New York ranked as the best in

“business environment”.

International Nurses Day: 12 May

International Nurses Day (IND) is an international

day celebrated around the world on 12 May (the

anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth) of each

year, to mark the contributions nurses make to

society.

The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has

celebrated this day since 1965.

This year, the theme is “Nurses: A Voice to

Lead, Achieving the Sustainable Development

Goals”.

19th Session of India-Italy Joint Commission for

Economic Cooperation

19th Session of India-Italy Joint Commission for

Economic Cooperation was held during 11th – 12th

May, 2017 in Rome.

The Joint Commission was co-chaired by the

Minister of Economic Development Mr. Carlo

Calenda from the Italian side and by the Minister

of Commerce and Industry Smt. Nirmala

Sitharaman from the Indian side.

Both Sides reiterated the importance of the JCEC

towards the development of bilateral economic

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and trade relations through facilitating dialogue

and enhancing cooperation on a wide range of

issues of mutual interest.

PM inaugurates hospital in Dickoya

The Prime Minister,

Narendra Modi has

inaugurated a hospital in

Dickoya in Central

Province of Sri Lanka,

built with Indian assistance.

Prime Minister Modi later addressed a large

gathering of Indian Origin Tamils at Norwood.

The Prime Minister also met representatives of

the Ceylon Workers Congress, and the Tamil

Progressive Alliance.

Earlier, PM attended International Vesak day

celebration and also visited the Seema Malaka

Temple.

China to organise OBOR summit on 14 May

China is organising a grand two-day summit from

May 14 to showcase its plans to build a network of

trade routes—One Belt, One Road (OBOR)—that

will connect Asia, Africa, the Middle East and

Europe.

Nearly 65 countries are taking take part in the

summit though only 20 heads of state will attend.

China plans to issue a joint statement at the end

of the two-day summit to showcase a wide

approval of its ambitious project.

India and Japan have shown reluctance to attend

the summit. While Japan will send a delegation,

India has refused to send any representative.

Indian mission, Vedanta adopt UJALA scheme

in UK

The Indian High Commission in London and metals

tycoon Anil Agarwal led Vedanta Group will be

among the first to adopt India’s UJALA scheme of

replacing all their old lamps with energy-saving

LED bulbs in the UK.

Minister of state for power, coal and renewable

energy Piyush Goyal presented them with their

first set of LED bulbs during the launch of the

Energy Efficiency Services Limited’s

(EESL) expansion plans in the UK, which have

been branded as ‘UK Joins Affordable LEDs for

All’ (UJALA).

The National LED programme was launched by

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January 2015.

Under this scheme, consumer can buy five LED

bulbs at the rate of Rs 20 each by showing

monthly electricity bills or ID cards.

Over 100 countries affected by WannaCry

ransomware so far

The Wanna Cry ransomware attack - one of the

largest ever cyber attacks - appeared to be slowing

around 24 hours after it wrecked havoc and shut

down tens of thousands of computer systems across

104 countries.

The slow down happened soon after

'MalwareTech', a Britain-based security

researcher, accidentally discovered a 'kill switch'

to halt the Wanna Cry attack.

Russia was the worst affected with Avast telling

that 60 per cent of all infected computers were

located in that country.

Points to Remember

WannaCry, is a form of ransomware that affects

Microsoft’s Windows operating system.

When a system is infected, a pop up window

appears, prompting you to pay to recover all your

files within three days, with a countdown timer

on the left of the window.

It adds that if you fail to pay within that time, the

fee will be doubled, and if you don’t pay within

seven days, you will lose the files forever.

Payment is accepted only with Bitcoin.

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Ransomware is a form of malicious software that

locks up the files on your computer, encrypts

them, and demands that you pay to get your files

back.

India jumps 73 spots to 26 rank in World Bank’s

electricity accessibility list

India has climbed up to twenty sixth position in

World Bank’s electricity accessibility ranking in the

current year from 99th spot in 2014, power minister

Piyush Goyal has said.

Elaborating on energy access to all, the minister

said at the Vienna Energy Forum, held on May

11, everyone was actually impressed about India

that has actually led the global efforts by its

action to address the challenge of the planet

change.

The government’s rural electrification

programme is proceeding swiftly, with over

13,000 villages electrified out of a total of

18,452 and is on track for completion within the

targeted 1,000 days.

Exhibition of Global Mobile Internet Conference

held in Beijing

The exhibition of Global Mobile Internet

Conference (GMIC) was held in Beijing, capital of

China, April 27, 2017.

The Global Mobile Internet Conference is hosted

annually in Beijing and Silicon Valley.

Mobile executives, entrepreneurs, developers,

and investors from around the globe and across

platforms attend GMIC each year.

International Workers' Day: 1 May

International Workers' Day also known as Labour

Day celebrates the spirit of labourers. It is observed

globally on 1 May every year.

It is the day to pay tribute to the labourers. In

India, the first Labour Day, or May Day, was

celebrated in 1923 in Chennai.

Nepal’s first female chief justice suspended

Nepal’s first female

Supreme Court chief

justice was

suspended after an

impeachment motion

was filed in parliament.

Sushila Karki, who had one of the highest

positions ever held by a woman in Nepal, was

suspended automatically after the motion signed

by nearly half the members in parliament.

Karki was accused of interfering with executive

powers and issuing biased decisions.

She was appointed chief justice in April 2016

and was due to retire next month.

India will give Rs 35 crore to Bangladesh in the

next five years

India will give Rs 35 crore to children of freedom

fighters in Bangladesh in the next five years under

the new 'Muktijodha scholarship' scheme.

All freedom fighters are now eligible for five

years multiple entry on Indian visa and 100 of

them will be provided free medical treatment in

Indian hospitals every year.

Points to Remember

India initiated the Muktijodha Scholarship

Scheme in 2006 for descendants of the 1971

Freedom Fighters. Until now, more than 10,000

scholarships worth Tk 150 million have been

disbursed.

Under the new scheme, students at a higher

secondary level will get a one-time grant of Tk

200,000 (Rs 1,53,700) and those at the

undergraduate level will get Tk 50,000 (Rs

38,430).

World Press Freedom Day: 3 May

It is observed globally on 3 May every year. The day

is observed to pay tribute to those journalists who

lost their lives while working on stories they’re

passionate about

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• The World Press Freedom Day observed

internationally, was proclaimed by the UN

General Assembly in 1993 following a

recommendation adopted at the 26th Session

of UNESCO’s General Conference in 1991

UN Observed 2 May 2017 : First World Tuna

Day

The United Nations is marking the first World Tuna

Day with calls to conserve one of the globe’s most

popular fish to be caught and eaten.

• It is a saltwater fish that belongs to the tribe

Thunnini, a sub-grouping of the mackerel

family (Scombridae) .

AIIB grants $160 mn for Andhra Pradesh Power

Project

China-sponsored Asian Infrastructure Investment

Bank (AIIB) today approved USD 160 million loan

for a ‘24×7 Power for All’ project in Andhra

Pradesh, the first credit from the bank for an Indian

project.

• The AIIB, in which India is the second

largest shareholder after China, has approved

the project with the objective to strengthen

the power transmission and distribution

system in Andhra Pradesh.

• The project is co-financed by the World

Bank. Andhra Pradesh is one of the first

states selected for the roll out of the

programme.

Points to Remember:-

• “Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

(AIIB) is an multilateral development bank

that aims to support its members in their

transition towards a low-carbon energy mix

by promoting the improvement of energy

efficiency, such as upgrading the existing

transmission and distribution networks,”.

• Head quarter:- Beijing, China

• President:-Jin Liqun

Dubai becomes first city to get its own Microsoft

font

Dubai city has unveiled the new font, called simply

“Dubai”, designed with Microsoft's help.

• The government communication office

says the Dubai Font integrates Arabic

and Latin alphabets and is available for

use in 23 languages in versions of

Microsoft Office around the world.

• Government bodies will now begin to

use the new font in their official

correspondence.

Emmanuel Macron elected next French

president

Pro-European centrist Emmanuel Macron

resoundingly won France's landmark presidential

election.

The victory caps an extraordinary rise for the 39-

year-old former investment banker, who will

become the country's youngest-ever leader.

Initial estimates showed Macron winning

between 65.5 per cent and 66.1 per cent of

ballots ahead of Le Pen on between 33.9 per cent

and 34.5 per cent.

Exhibition on ‘Return of the three stone

Sculptures from Australia to India’

Dr. Mahesh Sharma,

Minister of State (I/C)

for Culture and Tourism

inaugurated an

exhibition “Return of the

Three Stone Sculptures from Australia to India” in

National Museum, Janpath New Delhi.

The exhibition is organised to mark the safe

return of three stone sculptures (Seated Buddha,

Worshippers of Buddha, Goddess Pratyangira)

from Australia to India.

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These sculptures were purchased by National

Gallery of Australia from the Nancy Wiener,

New York in 2007 and Art of the Past, New

York, 2005.

The Minister released a book entitled ‘War

Paintings of The Irresistible Jat King Surajmal’

by Dr Satya Vrata Tripathi and also launched an

‘App on Swachchta Abhiyan’.

Piyush Goyal launches ‘SEVA’ App

Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New

& Renewable Energy and Mines, Piyush Goyal

launched the Saral Eindhan Vitaran Application

(SEVA), developed in-house by Coal India Limited

(CIL) for power sector consumers.

SEVA is a part of ‘Digital India’ initiative,

which is aimed at increasing the Consumer

Connect as well as the Transparency and

Accountability in Coal dispatch.

Govt approves abolition of Foreign Investment

Promotion Board

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister

Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval to the

phasing out of Foreign Investment Promotion Board

(FIPB).

The proposal entails abolishing the FIPB and

allowing administrative Ministries/Departments

to process applications for FDI requiring

government approval.

Henceforth, the work relating to processing of

applications for FDI and approval of the

Government thereon under the extant FDI Policy

and FEMA, shall now be handled by the

concerned Ministries/Departments in

consultation with the Department of Industrial

Policy & Promotion(DIPP), Ministry of

Commerce, which will also issue the Standard

Operating Procedure (SOP) for processing of

applications and decision of the Government

under the extant FDI policy.

In addition, Foreign Investors will find India

more attractive destination and this will result in

more inflow of FDI. The move will provide ease

of doing business and will help in promoting the

principle of Maximum Governance and

Minimum Government.

Currently around 91-95% of FDI inflow happens

through the automatic route, adding that there

are only 11 sectors (including defence and retail)

needing government approval.

The FIPB was initially set up under the Prime

Minister's Office following the economic

liberalisation in the early 1990s.

It shifted under the DIPP in 1996, and then in

2003 to the department of economic affairs in

the finance ministry.

Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports to Initiate

“Adopt A Slum” Campaign in Delhi

Minister of (Independent

Charge), Youth Affairs

& Sports, Shri Vijay

Goel announced “Adopt

a Slum” - a new

campaign to mark

completion of three

years of the Government.

Minister said that the idea is to initiate

developmental work in these slums and help the

slum-dwellers in resolving various issues.

A slum Yuva Daud/Marathon will mark the

beginning of this campaign on May 26.

Shri Goel further said that Ministry of Youth

Affairs & Sports, along with Nehru Yuva

Kendra Sangathan, under the aegis of the

Ministry, will initiate “Adopt a Slum” campaign

and groups like NSS, public schools, rotary

clubs, will pool in with efforts and manpower.

Shri Goel also stated that he has adopted Indira

slum of Timarpur area under the campaign.

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In Maharashtra, 'Good Morning' Squads To

Monitor And Prevent Open Defecation

The Maharashtra government

has decided to form 'good

morning' squads to monitor and

prevent open defecation in

villages and districts across the

state.

These squads will comprise representatives of

local bodies, self-help groups, NGOs, students

and social workers working in the area of

sanitation and cleanliness.

A government resolution issued said these

squads have been asked to keep an eye on the

areas where this practice is prevalent and to

ensure that locals have access to toilets there.

BSNL launches satellite phone service

State-owned BSNL has started satellite phone

service through INMARSAT which will be initially

offered to government agencies and later opened for

others citizen in phased manner.

The service will cover areas where no networks

are present and will be provided by INMARSAT

which has 14 satellites.

Construction Of India's First Underwater Rail

Tunnel Finishes

Boring of India’s first underwater rail tunnel running

under the Hooghly river has finished before its

scheduled deadline of July.

The tunnel is 16.6kms, 10.8kms of which runs

underground. And of 10.8kms, 502 metres under

the water and the whole thing connects Howrah

to the west and Salt lake to the east.

It will have 12 stations and six will be

underground. Estimated cost of the entire project

is Rs 5,000 crores.

Government launches 'e-Sanad' for digital

attestation of documents

The government has announced a service to digitise

the process of attestation of documents for those

going abroad, so that they are spared the trouble of

visiting government offices for the purpose.

'e-Sanad', an initiative of the Ministry of

External Affairs (MEA), in association with two

other ministries -- will initially be hosting school

leaving certificates with the help of Central

Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

In subsequent phases, the portal will also host

documents from central universities.

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)

has become the first education board to partner

with the Ministry of External Affairs to

implement e-sanad.

IIT-KGP signs MoU with MP for measuring

happiness

IIT Kharagpur's Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the

Science of Happiness has signed an MoU with

Madhya Pradesh government to collaborate on the

development of a Happiness Index for measuring the

well-being of the people of the state.

IIT-KGP will develop the index and analyse data

collected by the state government to assess the

level of happiness and chalk out

recommendations that can be used to enhance

happiness.

IIT-KGP will also develop an online screening

and assessment system in order to screen and

identify suitable volunteers from the database of

more than 30,000 people.

Dhola-Sadiya bridge named after Bhupen

Hazarika

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday

inaugurated the country's longest river bridge — the

Dhola-Sadiya bridge.

Spanning 9.15 km, the bridge is built across the

Lohit river which is a tributary of the

Brahmaputra river.

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He named the bridge after iconic singer Bhupen

Hazarika.

The Dhola-Sadiya bridge will reduce the travel

time between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh

from six hours to just one hour as the distance

will shrink by 165 km.

After inaugurating the Rs. 2,056 crore bridge at

Sadia in Assam’s Tinsukia district, Mr. Modi

walked a short distance over it.

The Steel Authority of India Limited has

supplied around 90 per cent, or around 30,000

tonnes of steel, including TMT, structurals and

plates, for the construction of the bridge.

The construction of the bridge began in 2011

under the public-private-partnership, which is

3.55 km longer than Mumbai’s Bandra-Worli

Sea Link, making it the longest bridge in India.

WHO confirms India's 1st Zika virus cases in

Ahmedabad

India's first three cases

of the Zika virus were

reported between

February 2016 and

January 2017 in

Ahmedabad, the

World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed in its

disease outbreak bulletin.

It said the Centre confirmed the three cases, in

two pregnant women and in an elderly man, on

May 15, 2017.

However, the detection and confirmation of Zika

cases wasn't made public by the state

government, apparently because it came in the

run-up to the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investment

Summit.

Haryana announces pension scheme for

journalists

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar

announced a slew of incentives for journalists,

including a Rs 10,000 monthly pension scheme, for

those who are above 60 years and have completed

20 years in the profession.

He also announced a life insurance cover of Rs

10 lakh and a cashless mediclaim policy of Rs

500,000.

The announcements were made by the Chief

Minister at the "Swarna Jayanti Journalists'

Meet" in Panchkula.

Manipur declares Dailong village Biodiversity

Heritage Site

The Manipur government has declared Dailong

village of Tamenglong district as a Biodiversity

Heritage Site of the state.

Dialong village, covering an area of 11.35 sq km,

has been declared as Biodiversity Heritage Site

under Section 37(1) of Biological Diversity Act,

2002.

The declaration was made after the

recommendation of Manipur Biodiversity

Board.

Jaitley dedicates Aeronautical Test range to The

Nation

The Defence Minister Shri Arun Jaitley has

inaugurated the newly built Aeronautical Test Range

(ATR) of the Defence Research & Development

Organisation (DRDO) at Chitradurga in Karnataka.

The Defence Minister said facilities such as the

ATR will help in creating conditions for

research, which will in turn develop the type of

human resource in the country required in the

field of aeronautical testing.

Amitabh Bachchan led Toilet Usage Campaign

set for national launch

For promotion of toilet usage across the country’s

villages, the Ministry of Drinking Water and

Sanitation has come out with an aggressive new

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campaign called Darwaza Band starting May 30th,

2017.

Iconic actor, Amitabh Bachchan, who leads the

campaign, is to joined by various dignitaries at

the formal launch event in Mumbai.

The campaign has been supported by the World

Bank and is being rolled out countrywide

immediately after the launch.

It is designed to encourage behaviour change in

men who have toilets but are not using them.

The campaign also features actor, Anushka

Sharma, who will be seen encouraging women

to stand up for this issue in their villages and

assume a leadership role.

Prakash Javadekar launches UGC App to fight

Ragging

Union Human Resource Development Minister Shri

Prakash Javadekar launched an Anti-Ragging

Mobile App introduced by the University Grants

Commission (UGC) here in New Delhi.

Speaking on this occasion Shri Javadekar said

this mobile app will help students register

complaints to counter the menace of ragging.

The Minister said earlier one had to visit the

website for registering a complaint of ragging

and our record shows that timely action was

taken which in turn had resulted in the decrease

of such instances. But still this ill has to be

eliminated completely, he said.

India to be first in world to run all government

ports on green energy

All 12 major domestic ports will soon switch to

renewable energy to meet their entire power

requirements, making India the first country to have

all government-owned ports running on solar and

wind energy.

The government plans to install almost 200

megawatt solar and wind power generation

capacity at the ports by 2019, officials said.

Almost 150 mw of this will be solar power and

50 mw wind power generation capacity.

The capacity could be ramped up to 500 mw in

the next few years.

India emerges as world's third largest aviation

market

The central government said that India has emerged

as the third largest aviation market in the world with

a passenger traffic of over 10 crore reported for

2016-17.

This was stated by Minister of State for Civil

Aviation Jayant Sinha at a media event on the

achievements of the Ministry of Civil Avation on

the completion of three years of the NDA

government.

Sinha said that government's key scheme in the

sector regional connectivity scheme (RCS-

UDAN) will allow India to have 200 plus

airports in the next 10-15 years.

The minister added that there are currently 496

aircraft in operation with domestic airlines, and

another 654 planes are under purchase orders.

Delhi Police launch bicycle patrol

The Delhi Police has launched

patrolling on bicycle to improve

policing in congested localities

in trans-Yamuna region of the

city.

The move is also being

billed as a green initiative.

The bicycle patrols will complement and

supplement the existing motorcycle and PCR

patrols which focus mainly on crime prevention

along the arterial and main roads of Delhi.

Ministry of Earth Sciences to launch ‘Deep

Ocean Mission’ by January 2018

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Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India is

all set to launch ‘Deep Ocean Mission’ by January

2018.

This will improve India’s position in ocean

research field.

India was the first country in the world to have

been given the Pioneer Area for exploration of

deep-sea mineral viz. Polymetallic nodules in

the Central Indian Ocean Basin in 1987.

Telangana hosted first Videsh Sampark

Telangana has hosted the first outreach programme

of the Ministry of External Affairs ‘Videsh

Sampark’, to engage the State governments to create

awareness about various programmes of the

Ministry.

The conference was held on May 13 in

Hyderabad which was inaugurated by the

Minister of State for External Affairs, Gen. V.K.

Singh.

Points to Remember

Telangana 29th state of India, located in

southern India. It was formed in June 2014 from

the northwestern part of Andhra Pradesh.

Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao is the chief

minister of Telangana while E. S. L. Narasimhan

is the governor.

Hyderabad is the capital of Telangana.

Rajnath Singh inaugurates National Platform on

Disaster Risk Reduction

The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh

inaugurated the two-day second meeting of National

Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR) in

New Delhi.

The theme of the Second meeting of NPDRR is

“Disaster Risk Reduction for Sustainable

Development: Making India resilient by 2030”.

The NPDRR is a multi-stakeholders National

Platform headed by the Union Home Minister

and it promotes participatory decision making in

disaster management, and strengthens federal

policy of our country.

5 MoUs signed between India and Palestine

Palestian President Mahmoud Abbas is on a 4-day

visit to India.

After the restricted talks India and Palestine sign

five agreements.

These were MoU on visa exemption for

diplomatic passport holder, agriculture

cooperation, cooperation in field of IT &

Electronics, health sector and cooperation in the

field of youth affairs and sports.

Points to Remember

Palestine, is a sovereign state in the Middle East

that is recognized by 136 UN members and since

2012 has a status of a non-member observer state

in the United Nations.

Rami Hamdallah is the Prime Minister of

Palestine.

Jerusalem is the Proclaimed Capital of Palestine.

The most commonly used currency in Palestine

is the Israeli new shekel. However it also uses

Egyptian Pound and Jordanian Dinar.

Plastic Park to be set up in Panipat

Union minister Ananth Kumar has said that a plastic

park will be set up over a 75 acre land in Panipat at

a cost of Rs 1,500 crore, while a pharma park will be

set in over a 100 acre land in Karnal.

The plastic park to be set up in Panipat will

generate employment opportunities for 30,000

plastic engineers and technicians, Kumar said,

adding the pharma park in Karnal aims make the

country self-sufficient in terms of medicine

production, and would help reduce production

cost by 30 per cent.

The Union government will provide all general

facilities in the Pharma Park, he said.

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Mukesh Ambani leads Forbes list of Global

Game Changers

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani

leads a Forbes list of 'Global Game Changers' who

are transforming their industries and changing the

lives of billions of people around the globe.

Forbes' second annual Global Game Changers

list includes 25 “intrepid business leaders” who

are “unsatisfied with the status quo” and

“transforming their industries and changing the

lives of billions of people around the globe.”

Ambani, 60 comes at the top of the list for his

game changing efforts to bring the internet to

India's masses.

Bandaru Dattatreya launches EPFO’s Citizens’

Charter & e-court system

The Minister of State for Labour &

Employment(IC), Bandaru Dattatreya launched

EPFO’s Citizens’ Charter 2017 and e-court

management system in Bangalore.

Citizens’ Charter 2017 is an attempt to bring

transparency and accountability on the part of

EPFO and make service delivery system and

grievance redressal mechanism more efficient so

that it delivers goods and services to its all

stakeholders in a time bound manner with a

reduced timeline from earlier timeline of 30

days.

The timeline in case of claim settlements is 10

days and 15 days in case of grievance redressal

management.

The citizens’ charter has been launched with the

vision of social security coverage to all

employees as well as implementation of policies

for benefit of all stakeholders with adequate

support level of social security.

The objective of the EPFO e-court Management

System is a transparent and electronic case

management system which will cater to

aspirations of all stakeholders – the employers,

the employees, litigants and CBT.

National Dengue Day: 16 May

National Dengue Day is observed on 16th of

May every year by Ministry of Health and

Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of

India.

The aim of this day is to control the Dengue

through create awareness, initiate preventive

actions and continue till transmission season is

over.

Points to Remember

Dengue is a common viral disease spread by

mosquito bite. It is transmitted by a mosquito

called Aedes Aegypti.

It occurs in two forms. The first form is,

Classical Dengue fever also known as break

bone fever .

The second form is Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever

which is not only painful but also deadly.

Vishakhapatnam, Beas cleanest railway stations

Vishakhapatnam and Beas railway stations are the

cleanest railway stations out of the 407 station in the

country, according to an audit conducted by Quality

Council of India (QCI) on behalf of Indian Railways.

Under the A1 category of railway stations –

Vishakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) topped the

list followed by Secunderabad (Telengana) and

Jammu Tawi (Jammu and Kashmir)

In A category, Beas (Punjab) bagged the first

position followed by Khammam (Telangana)

and Ahmednagar (Maharashtra).

The Darbhanga railway station in Bihar was the

dirtiest among the busiest stations.

BSF begins operation 'Garam Hawa' along

international border in Rajasthan

The BSF has started operation 'Garam Hawa' in the

western sector in Rajasthan, under which vigil along

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the international border with Pakistan has been

stepped up.

The operation will continue till May 23.

The operation is being conducted as chances of

infiltration across the border increase during

intense heatwave conditions.

Main aim is to reinforce and strengthen the

BSF's vigil along the border during the summer.

India to set up 7000 mw indigenous nuclear

plants

India will set up 7000 mw of indigenous nuclear

power plants, power, coal, renewable and mines

minister Piyush Goyal said.

The Union Cabinet has approved the scheme that

will promote energy self sufficiency, clean,

carbon free sources of power and place India

high among nuclear power countries, he said.

He said the decision will lead to Rs 70,000 crore

domestic orders for pressurised heat water

reactors and create 33,400 direct and indirect

jobs.

Once completed, the 10 reactors of 700 MW

each will give much needed fillip to the domestic

nuclear industry.

Cabinet approves setting up of lARI in Assam

The Cabinet Committee on

Economic Affairs, chaired

by the Prime Minister

Narendra Modi, has

approved the setting up of

Indian Agricultural

Research Institute (lARI) in Assam.

The proposal of Department of Agriculture

Research and Education (DARE) / Indian

Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) under

the scheme, the establishment of the "Indian

Agricultural Research Institute (lARI)-Assam"

seeks to set up the Institute on 587 acre of land

provided by the Govt. of Assam.

lARI-Assam would be a Post-Graduate

Institution of higher learning in Agricultural

Education.

Cabinet approves Faculty Exchange between

NDC, New Delhi and NDC, Dhaka

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister

Narendra Modi has given its ex-post facto approval

to the Faculty Exchange Agreement signed between

the National Defence College, New Delhi and

National Defence College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The objective of the Agreement is to

institutionalize regular exchange programs and

establish sustainable mechanisms between the

two National Defence Colleges with an aim to

enhancing mutual cooperation in the field of

national security, development and strategic

studies.

‘15th National Meeting of State Commissioners

for Persons with Disabilities’

Thaawarchand Gehlot, Minister for Social Justice

and Empowerment inaugurated the “15th National

Meeting of the State Commissioners for Persons

with Disabilities (PwD)” to review Implementation

of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal

Opportunities, Protection of rights and Full

Participation) Act-1995 in New Delhi.

The two days meeting has been organized by the

Office of the Commissioner for Persons with

Disabilities under Department of Empowerment

of Persons with Disabilities under Ministry of

Social Justice and Empowerment.

NITI Aayog holds the first Samavesh meeting

In pursuance of the Prime Minister’s call for a New

India 2022, the first meeting of the National Steering

Group and other knowledge partners was held in

NITI Aayog on 17th May 2017 under the co-

chairmanship of Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO and Shri

Ratan P Watal, Principal Adviser, NITI Aayog.

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The meeting was aimed at bringing together 32

premier educational and policy research

institutions to catalyse the development process,

enhance institutional capacity development and

a field level interface with the community for

New India 2022.

The meeting witnessed signing of Memoranda of

Understands (MoUs) between NITI Aayog and

major think tanks across the country to create an

ecosphere of evidence based policy research.

Govt clears new coal linkage policy

The government has approved a new policy under

which fuel supply to the power sector will be either

through the auction route or power purchase pact

based on competitive bidding of tariffs.

CCEA approved fading away of the existing

LoA-FSA regime and introduction of a new

more transparent coal allocation policy for

power sector, 2017-SHAKTI (Scheme for

Harnessing and Allocating Koyala (Coal)

Transparently in India).

Country's 1st ornamental fish park in Chennai

by August

India's first Aquatic Rainbow Technology Park

(ARTP) will be set up in Chennai within three

months.

The park, an ultra-modern exclusive facility for

ornamental fish equipped with multi-species

hatchery and live feed culture units, will fulfil a

major requirement of the industry for mass

production of high value aquarium fish.

Fisheries College and Research Institute,

Ponneri, will develop the facility.

Tamil Nadu is the second largest exporter of

ornamental fish after West Bengal.

IIEST creates India's first smart grid project

The Indian Institute of Engineering Science and

Technology (IIEST) has successfully created the

country's first smart grid project, which will generate

power from renewable sources of energy.

The project will soon be inaugurated by

President Pranab Mukherjee, IIEST Director

Prof Ajoy Kumar Roy said.

The smart grid will be synchronised to generate

power from solar, wind and vegetable waste

resources, depending on the weather conditions

and availability of waste products.

It is the first of its kind in the country.

Simbex-17 Commences Between Indian &

Republic Of Singapore Navy

As part of

"SIMBEX-17’, the

ongoing Bilateral

Naval Exercise

between Navies of

the Republic of

Singapore and

India, lndian Naval Ships Shivalik, Sahyadri, Jyoti

and Kamorta and one P8-I Maritime Patrol and Anti-

Submarine Warfare Aircraft are participating.

SIMBEX is an acronym for “Singapore-India

Maritime Bilateral Exercises”.

Bilateral cooperation between Singapore and

India was first formalised when RSN ships

began training with the Indian Navy in 1994.

This year’s edition of SIMBEX-17 being held in

the South China Sea would be the 24th in the

series and is aimed to increase interoperability

between the RSN and IN as well as develop

common understanding and procedures for

maritime security operations.

Indian Army gets M777 howitzers 30 years after

Bofors scandal

After a 30-year wait for new artillery guns since the

Bofors scandal, the Indian Army has received the

first two ultra light howitzers from the US as part of

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an order for 145 long-range guns which will be

mostly deployed along the border with China.

The M-777 A-2 ultra-light howitzers (ULH),

having a maximum range of 30 km and

manufactured by the BAE Systems, were being

taken to Pokhran firing range in Rajasthan for

test firing.

India had struck a government-to-government

deal with the US in November last year for

supply of the 145 howitzers at a cost of nearly Rs

5,000 crore.

India to host annual meet of AfDB

PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate the annual

meeting of African Development Bank (AfDB) on

May 23 at Gandhinagar.

It is the first time in the history of AfDB Group

that India will be hosting the annual meetings.

The core theme of the event is “Transforming

agriculture for wealth creation in Africa”.

The meetings will be held from May 22 to 26.

Points to Remember

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB)

is a multilateral development finance institution

established by Laston M. to contribute to the

economic development and social progress of

African countries.

The AfDB was founded in 1964 and comprises

three entities: The African Development Bank,

the African Development Fund and the Nigeria

Trust Fund.

It is headquartered in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

AfDB has 78 member countries.

Akinwumi Adesina is the President of the

African Development Bank.

National Anti-terrorism day: 21 May

The National Anti Terrorism Day is celebrated every

year on May 21 in India to raise awareness among

all sections of people, about the danger of terrorism,

violence and its dangerous effect on the people, the

society and the nation as a whole.

On this day, in 1991, the former Prime Minister

Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a suicide

squad of Liberation of Tamil Tigers Eelam

(LTTE), while attending a rally in

Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu.

35. Turbo Megha Airways first private airline to

get UDAN licence

Turbo Megha Airways has become the first private

airline to get a licence to fly under UDAN, the

government scheme for subsidized regional flights.

Turbo Megha Airways which is also called

TruJet, is one of the five operators who have

been awarded a total of 128 routes under the

UDAN scheme.

The airline will use three ATR-72 aircraft, and

will add more planes later.

Bengaluru Airport to Go green

The Bangalore International Airport Limited

(BIAL) inaugurated solar farms at the Kempegowda

International Airport premises.

The first project of 440kW has been installed in

the car park area in front of the BIAL corporate

office, and the second project of 2.5MW solar

panels at the airside.

Both projects - jointly - will reduce carbon

emission by 3125 tonnes per annum (3075

tonnes of carbon dioxide emission per annum at

the airside and 550 tonnes at the car park area).

Woman from Arunachal becomes first to scale

Mt Everest twice within 5 days

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A climber from Arunchal Pradesh, Anshu Jamsenpa,

scripted history by scaling Mt Everest twice within

five days.

Jamsenpa, a mother of two, had conquered the

world's highest peak for the fourth time on May

16.

Jamsenpa set the world record for becoming the

first woman climber to reach the top of Mt

Everest twice within five days.

She is also the first Indian woman to reach the

top of Mt Everest for the fifth time on May 21.

PM Narendra Modi lays foundation stone for

993-crore projects of Kandla port

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation

stone for half a dozen projects worth Rs 993 crore

related to development of Kandla port.

The projects for which foundation was laid

include a convention centre named after

Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar.

Modi also suggested that the Kandla Port Trust

be named after Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay,

who stood for the uplift of all sections of the

society.

Other projects include two cargo berths, a road

over bridge, deployment of two mobile harbour

cranes and mechanisation of fertiliser handling

facility at the port.

Odisha to introduce boat ambulances in four

districts

Odisha will introduce boat ambulance service in four

districts where people face difficulties in getting

health service.

The boat ambulance service will be available in

the districts of Koraput, Malkangiri, Kendrapara

and Kalahandi where people face problems in

availing 108 ambulance service due to

intervening large water bodies in the form of

rivers and dams disrupting road communication.

The state government has sanctioned six boat

ambulances for these areas out of the state funds

and these will be part of the 108 ambulance

service.

This is part of an MoU signed between the State

Government and the Ziquitza Health Care.

IPP & WIPO to set up Technology and

Innovation Support Centers

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion

(DIPP) and World Intellectual Property

Organization (WIPO)have signed an agreement to

establish Technology and Innovation Support

Centers (TISC)

WIPO’s Technology and Innovation Support

Centers (TISC) program provides innovators in

developing countries with access to locally

based, high quality technology information and

related services, helping them to exploit their

innovative potential and to create, protect, and

manage their intellectual property (IP) rights.

NBA opens its first academy in India

The National Basketball

Association (NBA) has

opened its first academy in

India, confident that it will

help the sport grow in the

country.

An elite basketball

training center at

Jaypee Greens Integrated Sports Complex in

Greater Noida was officially thrown open for the

upcoming male and female talent of the country.

Twenty-one elite male prospects, who were

selected following a three-month nationwide

talent search, will receive scholarships and

training at NBA Academy India.

Calcutta HC judge CS Karnan sentenced to 6

months in jail by Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court has ordered controversial sitting

Calcutta High Court judge C S Karnan be

immediately sent to jail for 6 months for committing

contempt of court by his scandalous remarks.

This is the first time that a sitting judge has been

sent to prison.

Justice Karnan had levelled allegations against

several judges of the Madras High Court and the

apex court and stubbornly refused to take the

allegations back.

To make things worse, he had passed orders

against the seventh judge bench, which was

hearing his contempt case.

SC has also banned media from publishing

content of orders passed by Karnan.

Railways to acquire EoTT system to run trains

without guards

The Indian Railways will float global tenders worth

over Rs 100 crore for acquiring sophisticated

equipment to run 1,000 trains without guards.

The End of Train Telemetry (EoTT) equipment

is used to establish communication between the

locomotive driver and the last wagon of the train

to ensure that the train is running with all

coaches/wagons as a complete unit.

The equipment is designed to do the guard’s job

by giving indication to the loco driver in case of

parting of coaches or wagons from the rear side

of the train.

Each set of EoTT device is estimated to cost

approximately Rs10 lakh.

Supreme Court will go paperless from July 3

PM Narendra Modi and Chief Justice J S Khehar

launched Integrated Court Management Information

System scheme for complete digitisation of

litigation in all courts, which in the first phase

promises paperless filing of appeals in the Supreme

Court from July 3.

Justice Khehar said the idea of court records

digitisation came to him immediately after

taking oath as CJI on receiving a letter from law

minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who had pointed

out that the government had sanctioned Rs 2,130

crore for the e-court mission mode project for

2016-17.

Under Integrated Court Management

Information System, once a petition was filed in

a court, there was no need to replicate the paper

work before each appellate court.

Rajnath proposes ‘Samadhan’ for Naxal violence

Union Home Minister

Rajnath Singh addressed at

the meeting of the chief

ministers of Left-wing-

extremism (LWE)-

affected states.

The Home Minister coined an acronym to

counter Naxal violence —“SAMADHAN”—

with “S” for Smart leadership; “A” for

Aggressive Strategy; “M” for motivation and

training; “A” for actionable intelligence; “D” for

dashboard-based KPIs (key performance

indicators) and KRAs (key result areas); “H” for

harnessing technology; “A” for Action plan for

each theatre and “N” for no access to financing.

DIPAM launches online investor facilitation

platform

Keen on creating more awareness about the

forthcoming disinvestment issues, the Finance

Ministry has set up an Investor Facilitation Platform

that will provide information about stocks of public

sector units.

Set up by the Department of Investment and

Public Asset Management (DIPAM), the

platform will be an interactive forum for all

stakeholders, including investors, investment

banks, law firms, public sector units and

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administrative ministries that are involved in

stake sales.

Developed and maintained by PRIME Database,

all users will have to register on the platform,

which will then be authorised by DIPAM.

Government sets up task force to compute timely

data on employment

Government has set up a

high-level task force to

compute timely data on

employment in the

country, a move that will

go a long way to help government frame policies and

take steps that can create jobs in the country.

The task force has been created under the

chairmanship of Aayog's vice chairman Arvind

Panagariya with labour secretary Sathiyavathy,

secretary statistics T.C.A. Ananth, Pulak Ghosh

of NITI Aayog and Manish Sabharwal as

members.

Election Commission of India Launches National

Contact Centre

The Commission has added another feather to its cap

with the launch of National Contact Centre with a

toll-free No. 1800111950.

Now any citizen from any part of the country can

call on the toll-free in English or Hindi with any

query or complaint at any time of the day.

Callers can enquire on subjects such as elections,

voting dates, EPIC, electoral roll, online

registration etc. and lodge a complaint by

simply dialing in to the toll free no.

The National Contact Centre is operated on a

National Grievance Redressal System Software.

This software is a single window platform to

manage complaints and feedback received

through calls, emails, sms and website access in

an integrated and time-bound manner.

Union Agriculture Minister launch e-Krishi

Samvad, an online interface

Radha Mohan Singh, Union Minister for Agriculture

and Farmers Welfare, launched e-Krishi Samvad at

Krishi Bhawan.

Singh informed that the e-Krishi Samvad is

internet-based interface and is a unique platform

that will provide direct and effective solutions to

the problems faced by farmers and stakeholders

in the agriculture sector.

Union Agriculture Minister said that people can

directly connect to the ICAR website and get the

appropriate solutions from the subject matter

specialists and institutes through web or SMS.

Stakeholders can upload photographs related to

diseases of the crops, animals or fishes for

diagnostics and remedial measures instantly

from the specialists.

Rajnath Singh launches Mobile Application for

CAPF personnel

The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh

launched the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)

Mobile Application for grievance redressal of the

Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) personnel.

The Union Home Minister also launched

BSFMyApp on the occasion.

This has given a ‘Digital Option’ to jawans to

lodge their grievances and he is just one click

away from jawans, the Home Minister said.

Rajnath Singh said that he will review the

dashboard of the App every month and check the

status of redressal of grievances. The MHA will

intervene, wherever required, he said.

NITI Aayog to partner Uttar Pradesh for holistic

development

In a marked departure from the past practices and

keeping in mind the spirit of co-operative

federalism, a high level delegation led by NITI Vice

Chairman, Dr. Arvind Panagariya held day long

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deliberations in Lucknow on developmental

challenges before Uttar Pradesh.

The delegation met UP CM Yogi Adityanath

along with seniors Ministers and officials of the

state government and it was agreed that NITI

would partner with UP in areas such as doubling

the farmers’ income, livelihood opportunities,

enterprise,, investment and growth in the State,

among others.

National Technology Day: 11th May

On 11 May 1998, India conducted a series of nuclear

tests in the Pohkran, Rajasthan.

The tests were successful and since that day

India has had drastic breakthroughs in the field

of technology and science like ‘Chandrayan’ and

the launch of 104 satellites with one rocket.

To celebrate these achievements, India

celebrates National Technology Day on 11 May.

India plans to replace Maitri with a new

permanent research station

India has decided to replace the Maitri research

station in Antarctica with a new one in the next three

to four years.

The country is also drafting laws to safeguard its

interest in Antarctica and is poised to expand its

research activity in the coldest continent.

India does not have laws for Antarctica and is

currently governed by international laws.

Army brings back CASO as part of counter-

terror operations in Kashmir

The Indian Army has decided to re-introduce cordon

and search operations (CASO) as a "permanent

feature" of its campaign against militants, nearly 15

years after the practice was abandoned.

CASO will be carried out in a major way in

militancy-hit areas of Kulgam, Pulwama, Tral,

Budgam and Shopian in south Kashmir.

The Army had discontinued CASO following

stiff opposition from the local population.

UP CM forms ‘Maa’ committee to keep an eye on

mid-day meals served

to students

‘Maa’ Committees will

now keep an eye on mid-

day meals served to

students in the primary

schools of Uttar Pradesh

to ensure that they get nutritious food prepared in

hygienic conditions.

It will be a committee of six mothers, from all

sections of society, whose students are studying

in that school.

From cleanliness in kitchen, to quality of food

being served to children, they will keep an eye

on minute details.

Nagpur to get India's first electric radio cabs on

May 26, 2017

Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari will launch

electric radio cabs on May 26, 2017 for the first time

in India.

The pilot project will start with 200 e-taxis

starting from Gadkari’s constituency, Nagpur.

While Mahindra & Mahindra has supplied the

electric vehicles to the Nagpur government, the

infrastructure for charging these vehicles will be

provided by the local governing body.

'No school bag' on Saturdays in Uttar Pradesh

schools

Students of Class 1-12 studying in schools

recognised by Uttar Pradesh government will not

have to bring their school bags on Saturdays.

In an effort to promote extra-curricular activities

among students, the Yogi Aditryanath

government has decided to make Saturday a

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'Funday' by involving children in creative

activities.

Aadhaar not mandatory for PAN, ITR in J&K,

Assam, Meghalaya

The Revenue Department has exempted residents of

Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Meghalaya, and

citizens above 80 years from mandatory quoting of

Aadhaar to obtain PAN cards and file tax returns.

A notification in this regard has been issued by

the government.

This comes at a time when a case challenging

mandatory use of Aadhaar for PAN (permanent

account number) and filing income tax return

(ITR) is pending in the Supreme Court.

The Finance Ministry notification gives the

exemption to “an individual who does not

possess the Aadhaar number or the enrolment

ID” who is residing in Assam, Jammu and

Kashmir and Meghalaya.

The exemption is also for persons of 80 years or

more, non-residents and non-citizens.

Kerala tops, Bihar last in public affairs index

Two South Indian States Kerala and Tamil Nadu

have secured first and second rankings for the

second year in a row in 2017 public affairs index

(PAI) in governance in States

Poll-bound Gujarat gained two positions rising

from five in 2016 to three.

Karnataka slipped from third position in 2016 to

fourth in 2017 while Maharashtra stood fifth (4th

in 2016) in governance indicators.

There was no change in the last four positions

among large States. Like in the previous year,

Bihar (18th), Jharkhand (17th), Odisha (16th)

and Assam (15th) are at the bottom of the table

in PAI, a latest survey of think-tank Public

Affairs Centre (PAC), Bengaluru, has revealed.

PM Modi to inaugurate Asia’s longest bridge in

Assam

Asia's longest bridge on Brahmaputra, which will

reduce travel time between Assam and Arunachal

Pradesh by four hours, will be opened for public on

May 26 coinciding with Modi government's three

years in power.

9.15km long Dhola-Sadiya bridge, capable of

withstanding the weight of a 60-tonne battle

tank, will improve the movement of civilian and

military vehicles to strategic locations up to

Anini in Arunachal Pradesh.

Anini is barely 100km from China border.

Mumbai, Chennai among top 20 tourist

destinations in Asia Pacific region

Mumbai and Chennai have been named among the

top 20 tourist destinations in the Asia Pacific region,

says a report.

The rankings have been based in terms of total

number of international overnight arrivals,

number of nights spent at each destination and

cross-border spending, according to Mastercard

Asia Pacific Destinations Index 2017.

Overall, Bangkok remains the most visited

destination in Asia Pacific in the list of 171

destinations across 22 countries in the Asia

Pacific region.

Maharashtra CM inaugurates automatic

weather station in Nagpur

Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has

inaugurated the state’s first automatic weather

station at Dongargaon in Nagpur.

This is one of the unique project in the country,

which will measure wind direction, wind speed,

air temperature, relative humidity and record

amount of rainfall.

This information will be shared with farmers

who can then manage sowing in a much better

and planned way as per the weather conditions.

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Real Estate Act Come Into Effect From 1 May

2017

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act,

2016 (RERA) will finally give India’s real estate

sector its first regulator from May 1, 2017.

However, only 13 states and Union Territories

(UTs) have so far notified rules.

The act was passed by parliament last year and

the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban

Poverty Alleviation had given time till May 1,

2017, to formulate and notify rules for the

functioning of the regulator.

RERA seeks to bring clarity and fair practices

that would protect the interests of buyers and

also impose penalties on errant builders.

Points to Remember

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development)

Act, 2016, was passed by Parliament in March

2016.

States were given a year to set up this framework

— namely, the Regulatory Authority and the

Appellate Tribunal. From May 1, 2017, the Act

has come into force in its entirety.

At the level of the state, the Regulatory

Authority and Appellate Tribunal must dispose

of cases within 60 days. Appeals to the High

court can be made within 60 days.

“One IP- Two Dispensaries” and “Aadhaar

Based Online Claim Submission” launched

Minister of State (I/C)

for Labour and

Employment, Shri

BandaruDattatreya

launched two schemes

“One IP- Two

Dispensaries” and “Aadhaar based Online Claim

Submission” on the occasion of International Labour

Day 1 MAY 2017.

Under One IP- Two Dispensaries scheme ESIC

has given an option to an Insured Person (IP) to

choose two dispensaries, one for self and another

for family through an employer.

Under Aadhaar based Online Claim Submission

scheme all EPF Members who have activated

their UAN and seeded their KYC (Aadhaar) with

EPFO will be able to apply for PF final

settlement, Pension withdrawal benefit and PF

part withdrawal from the their UAN Interface

directly.

Ganga Cleanliness Pledge Day: May 2

The National Mission for Clean Ganga observe

Ganga Cleanliness Pledge Day on May 2 at various

places in the rivers basin states to spread awareness

and ensure public participation for the programme.

The government will spread the message

through rallies, shramdaan (labour donation),

tree plantation, etc.

UP government to celebrate UP Diwas on

January 24

UP Diwas would be celebrated for the first time with

the Yogi Adityanath government deciding to

observe the day with fervour across the state on

January 24, 2018.

On January 24, 1950, the United Provinces was

rechristened as Uttar Pradesh and previous

governments in the state had been regularly

receiving demands from different quarters to

mark the day as UP Diwas.

HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar launched

Vidya-Veerta Abhiyan and‘Wall of Valour’ IN

Educational Institutions.

Union Minister of Human Resource Development

Shri Prakash Javadekar launched Students for

soldiers- a nationwide VIDYA VEERTA

ABHIYAN and‘Wall of Valour’ IN Educational

Institutions to encourage Universities and

educational institutions across the country to display

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portraits of Param Veer Chakra-decorated

soldiers in New Delhi on 02 May 2017.

• Organising of such events help in changing

atmosphere in our colleges and universities.

• It is just to revive the patriotic feeling in our

youth

DRDO developed Defence Equipment handed

over to Security Forces

With the view of

empowering Indian

security forces

effectively,Defence

Minister Arun Jaitley on

Monday handed over several types of equipment

which are developed by DRDO to Indian security

forces.

• The defence devices were handed over in

New Delhi to NDRF included 'E-Nasika', a

hand-held equipment which is capable of

rapid detection of chemical agents well

below their toxic limits. Minister Jaitley also

handed over to NSG an equipment called

'OTL-300', It can instantly detect partially

camouflaged optical elements, such as

telescopes, binoculars and night vision

devices.

• The 'OTL-300' was given to Delhi Police

also.

• These devices will help Indian security

forces more powerful and will be able to

detect and eradicate threats effectively.

Department of Telecom (DoT) Launched Tarang

Sanchar

Department of Telecom launched Tarang Sanchar in

New Delhi on May 2, a web portal for Information

sharing on Mobile Towers and EMF Emission

Compliances and which will go a long way in

clearing the myths and misconceptions of public on

mobile towers and emissions from them.

• The Telecom Minister expressed the hope

that the portal will empower common man to

know at the convenience of a mouse click,

about towers working in a particular locality

and whether they are compliant to the EMF

emission norms defined by the Government.

• In his address, the Chairman, TRAI Shri R S

Sharma said that the portal will be a mile

stone for transparency, fair play, citizen

empowerment and will finally lead to a

knowledge economy

New Premier Train for the Mumbai-Goa route

:Tejas Express

Railways will unveil a new premier train service

between Mumbai and Goa in June with state-of-the-

art facilities, called the Tejas Express.

• Comprising executive class and chair cars,

Tejas coaches will be equipped with 22 new

features, including fire and smoke detection

and suppression systems and the improved

aesthetics.

• After the Mumbai-Goa run, the Tejas

service, which was promised in the budget,

is likely to be pressed on the Delhi-

Chandigarh route.

Khattar takes steps to minimise Road Accident

Casualties

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar

launched the 'Haryana Vision Zero' campaign in

collaboration with NASSCOMM Foundation with

an aim to reduce deaths due to road accidents on 2

May 2017.

• "The objective of the forum is to generate

discussion between all stakeholders, on

ideas, strategies and concerns, and to present

the same to the Central government, in order

to influence the current legislation process,

and forge a collective path for road safety

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reform in the country with Haryana leading

the way,".

• An MoU was also signed between the

Transport Department of Haryana and

NASSCOM and World Resources Institute

(WRI) to take the project to 10 districts of the

state.

• While addressing the workshop, the chief

minister said road safety was a serious issue

and that the state government had adopted a

vision to achieve target of "zero deaths in

road accidents".

Madhya Pradesh changed Financial Year as

January- December

Madhya Pradesh has become the first state to switch

to the January-December financial year from the

existing April-March , with the state cabinet

endorsing the move.

• The move breaks a 150-year tradition as

India started adopting the April-March

financial year from 1867.

• The decision comes close on the steps of

Prime Minister Narendra Modi making a

pitch for shifting the fiscal year to January-

December period during NITI Aayog's

governing council meet in the national

capital recently.

Points to Remember:-

• The central government had constituted a

high-level committee under former Chief

Economic Advisor Shanker Acharya to

examine “desirability and feasibility” of

having a new financial year.

“Rashtriya Swachhata Kendra” to be set up by

“Swachh Bharat Mission”

“Rashtriya Swachhata Kendra” will be set up by

“Swachh Bharat Mission” Ministry of Drinking

Water and Sanitation at Gandhi Smriti and Darshan

Samiti (GSDS), Rajghat under the vision of Prime

Minister during the centenary year of Champaran

Satyagraha.

• To create awareness on “Swachhata”,

Ministry of Culture has developed “e-guide

(Audio-Visual)” App for the tourists visiting

National Museum.

Points to Remember:-

• ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ is a campaign was

officially launched on 2 October 2014 at

Rajghat, New Delhi, by Prime Minister

Narendra Modi.

• The objectives of Swachh Bharat are to

reduce or eliminate open defecation through

the construction of individual, cluster and

community toilets.

• Slogan:-‘One step towards cleanliness’

Cabinet approved SAMPADA Scheme

The Cabinet Committee

on Economic Affairs,

chaired by the Prime

Minister Shri Narendra

Modi has given its

approval SAMPADA

(Scheme for Agro-Marine Processing and

Development of Agro-Processing Clusters) for the

period 2016-20 .

• The objective of SAMPADA is to

supplement agriculture, modernize

processing and decrease agri-waste.

Points to Remember:-

• This scheme will be launched under the

Ministry of Food Processing Industries

(MoFPI).

• SAMPADA is an umbrella scheme

incorporating ongoing schemes of the

Ministry like Mega Food Parks, Integrated

Cold Chain and Value Addition

Infrastructure, Food Safety and Quality

Assurance Infrastructure, etc.

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• It is also new schemes like Infrastructure for

Agro-processing Clusters, Creation of

Backward and Forward Linkages, Creation /

Expansion of Food Processing &

Preservation Capacities.

CSR Fair Started in New Delhi

Shri Anant G. Geete, Union Minister of Heavy

Industries and Public Enterprises has inaugurated a

three day long CSR Fair from today (4th to 6th May,

2017) at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

• This mega event is being organised by The

Department of Public Enterprises, Ministry

of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

and PHD Chamber in collaboration with

ONGC.

• The objective of fair is to provide a leading

platform to corporate leaders, organizations,

implementing agencies and business experts

to identify practical solutions for the

problems concerning the participatory

implementation of CSR projects at the

ground level.

Andhra Pradesh' Banganapalle mango got GI

tag

The succulent Banaganapalle mango has got

Geographical Indication (GI) registration from the

Geographical Indications Registry.

• The Andhra Pradesh government is the

registered proprietor of the GI tag for

mangoes.

Points to Remember:-

• GI is covered under the Intellectual Property

Rights and the Trade Related Aspects of

Intellectual Property Rights.

• A GI tag certifies the origin of a product or

produce from a particular region as the

quality or other features of the product is

attributable only to the place of its origin.

Gadkari inaugurates India Integrated Transport

and Logistics Summit

The Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin

Gadkari inaugurated the three day India Integrated

Transport and Logistics Summit (IITLS) organized

by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in

New Delhi.

• The IITLS has been organized with the

objective of facilitating constructive

dialogue between various stakeholders

for the development of multimodal

infrastructure in the country.

• This is urgently required to improve

logistics costs in India.

• Currently India has a very poor Logistics

Performance Index due to an

unfavourable modal mix of transport and

a lack of seamless intermodal

connectivity.

Indore ranked cleanest city in India, Gonda in UP

the dirtiest

Indore has been ranked as the cleanest city in India

while Gonda in Uttar Pradesh has been ranked the

dirtiest among 434 cities, a government survey has

found.

• Bhopal, another city from MP has been

ranked second while Visakhapatnam in

Andhra Pradesh and Surat in Gujarat

have emerged as the third and fourth

cleanest cities.

• The criteria for this year's ranking

included 45% marks for cities becoming

open defecation free, solid waste

management (including sweeping,

collection, transportation and processing

of garbage), education and capacity

building.

• Another 25% marks was kept for field

inspection and 30% for citizen feedback.

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eVIN Project of Health Ministry becomes global

best practise in immunization

The Government’s Electronic Vaccine Intelligence

Network (eVIN), an indigenously developed online

real-time vaccine logistic management system rolled

out in 12 States two years ago, is drawing global

attention.

• Representatives from Philippines,

Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nepal and

Thailand are already here to study the

project, planning to replicate it back

home.

• eVIN (Electronic Vaccine Intelligence

Network) is an indigenously developed

technology system in India that digitizes

vaccine stocks and monitors the

temperature of the cold chain through a

smartphone application.

• The innovative eVIN is presently being

implemented called across twelve states

in India.

• The technological innovation is

implemented by the United Nations

Development Programme (UNDP).

Cabinet approves Vijayawada Airport as

International Airport

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister

Narendra Modi has given its approval for the

declaration of Vijayawada Airport as International

Airport, as per the provisions of Andhra Pradesh

Reorganisation Act, 2014.

• The proposal will add to improved

connectivity to the State capital.

• It will provide wider choice of services at

competitive costs to the air-travelers and

give a boost to domestic/international

tourism and socio-economic

development of Andhra Pradesh by

bringing in international passengers and

cargo traffic.

Madhya Pradesh Assembly declares Narmada

living entity

The Madhya

Pradesh

government has

passed a

resolution

granting river

Narmada the status of a living entity

• A month ago, the Uttarakhand High

Court had declared Ganga, Yamuna and

their tributaries living entities with the

status of a legal person.

• The living entity status will mean that the

Narmada will be owner of all property

and litigation for its conservation could

be initiated on the river’s behalf.

GSLV Successfully Launches South Asia Satellite

India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle

(GSLV-F09) successfully launched the 2230 kg

South Asia Satellite (GSAT-9) into its planned

Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO).

• Launch of GSLV was its eleventh and

took place from the Second Launch Pad

at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre

SHAR (SDSC SHAR), Sriharikota, the

spaceport of India.

• This is the fourth consecutive success

achieved by GSLV carrying

indigenously developed Cryogenic

Upper Stage.

• In its oval shaped GTO, the South Asia

Satellite is now orbiting the Earth.

• South Asia Satellite is a communication

satellite built by ISRO to provide a

variety of communication services over

the South Asian region. For this, it is

equipped with Ku-band transponders.

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International permaculture conference to be held

in Hyderabad

Permaculture experts from around the world will

attend the 13th International Permaculture

Convergence (IPC) to be held in Hyderabad from

November 27 to December 2, 2017.

• More than 1,200 delegates from across

the globe will attend the IPC with the

theme 'Towards healthy societies'.

• It is being organised by Hyderabad-

based environmental and developmental

NGO Aranya Agricultural Alternatives,

the International Permaculture

Convergence Council (IPCC) and

Friends of IPC (FIPC).

• The primary objective of IPC 2017 is to

provide Indian farmers an opportunity to

get inspired and learn how their current

challenges can be solved using

permaculture principles.

Govt declares entire Assam as 'disturbed' area

The Centre has declared the entire Assam as a

"disturbed" area under the Armed Forces (Special

Powers) Act -- the AFSPA -- for three more months,

citing various violent activities by insurgent groups

ULFA, NDFB and others.

• In a gazette notification, the Home

Ministry said the entire Assam, besides

bordering areas of Meghalaya, have been

declared "disturbed" under the AFSPA

for three months with effect from May 3.

• The ministry said there were 75 incidents

of violence in Assam in 2016 in which 33

people, including four security

personnel, were killed and 14 others

were abducted.

Points to Remember

• Armed Forces Special Powers Acts

(AFSPA), are Acts of the Parliament of

India that grant special powers to the

Indian Armed Forces in what each act

terms "disturbed areas".

• According to The Disturbed Areas

(Special Courts) Act, 1976 once declared

‘disturbed’, the area has to maintain

status quo for a minimum of 3 months.

• The AFSPA has been continuing in

Assam since November 1990.

Security forces conduct biggest combing

operation in Kashmir since 90s

In view of growing attacks on policemen and

incidents of bank robberies, a massive ''cordon and

combing'' operation had been launched by the

security forces in south Kashmir’s Shopian district.

• The massive door-to-door joint search

operation launched by the Army,

paramilitary and J&K Police is probably

the biggest such exercise in the past 15

years in the violence-hit South Kashmir.

Country’s 1st bio refinery plant inaugurated in

Pune

Union Minister for

Road Transport and

Highway Nitin

Gadkari has

inaugurated the

country’s first bio refinery plant which produces

ethanol from variety of biomass.

The project is situated at Rahu in Pune district.

The plant can produce one million litre of

ethanol per annum by processing a variety of

agro-residue like rice and wheat straw, cotton

stalk, cane trash, corn cobs with superior product

yields.

Haryana govt to offer meals at subsidized rates

for workers

Haryana government said it has decided to open

canteens offering meals at subsidised rates to

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registered construction workers under the

Antyodaya Anna Yojana, at 23 locations in the state.

Besides, mobile food vans would be started at 23

convenient sites with large number of workers.

Meals would be served in these canteens

between 8 am and 2 pm, and the department

would pay special attention to quality of food

served.

Venkiaih Naidu adopts Titarvasa village in

Rajasthan

Under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna, Union Urban

Development Minister and Rajya Sabha member

from Rajasthan, Venkayya Naidu has adopted

Titarvasa village in Jhalrapatan, Rajasthan.

According to the information available on the

website of the central government, so far only 20

of the Lok Sabha and 4 MPs from the state

government has adopted the village in Phase II

of Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna.

Maha govt ties up with WHO for eradication of

Rubella

Maharashtra government has tied up with World

Health Organisation (WHO) for eradication of

Rubella measles and will start vaccination drive

from March 2018.

Children aged between 9 months to 15 years,

will be vaccinated for Rubella under this

campaign across the state.

WHO the umbrella body of the healthcare sector

around the world, stresses on mass vaccination

campaigns across the globe as a preventive

measure.

Israel signs $630 million arms deal with India

Israel and India penned a deal worth $630 million,

to provide India's navy with missile defence systems

following a record weapons sale between the two

countries last month.

The new contract will see state-

owned Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) supply

LRSAM air and missile defence systems for

four Indian naval ships.

IAI said the contract will be carried out

with India's Bharat Electronics Limited, which

will be the project's main contractor.

LRSAM is an advanced air and

missile defence system, jointly developed by

IAI and India's Defence Research and

Development Organisation.

SBI launches national hackathon 'Code For

Bank'

State Bank of India (SBI) has launched a national

hackathon for developers, start-ups and students to

come up with innovative ideas and solutions for the

banking sector.

The hackathon, named 'Code For Bank', will

focus on the business value driven by

technologies like predictive analytics, fin-

tech/blockchain, digital payments, IOT, artificial

intelligence, machine learning, BOTS and

robotic process automation.

India retains world's highest FDI recipient crown

India retained its numero uno position as the world's

top most greenfield FDI investment destination for

the second consecutive year, attracting USD 62.3

billion in 2016, says a report.

India has remained ahead of China and the US as

far as FDI inflows were concerned in the last

year, said the fDi Report 2017 compiled by fDi

Intelligence, a division of The Financial Times

Ltd.

China has overtaken the US to become the

second biggest country for FDI.

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HDFC among top 10 consumer financial services

companies globally

Mortgage lender HDFC Ltd is the only Indian

company to be named among the top 10 consumer

financial services companies in the world, with

American Express claiming the first position.

The company has been featured in the coveted

list for the third consecutive year.

American Express topped the list, followed by

Capital One Financial and Visa in the second and

third place, respectively.

RBI to observe financial literacy week from June

5-9

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will observe

financial literacy week from June 5-9 across the

country.

The financial literacy week will focus on four

broad themes—know your customer (KYC),

Exercising Credit Discipline, Grievance

Redressal and Going Digital (UPI and *99#).

The main objective of observing the financial

literacy week is to emphasize the importance of

financial literacy.

IOC is India's most profitable PSU

The Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has overtaken the

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to become

the country’s most profitable state-owned company.

IOC, which has for decades been India’s biggest

company by turnover, posted a 70% jump in net

profit to Rs 19,106.40 crore in the financial year

ended March 31, 2017.

Reliance Industries retained the crown of being

India’s most profitable company for the third

year in a row, posting a net Rs 29,901 crore in

financial year 2016-17.

India to grow at 7.2% in 2017-18: World Bank

In its latest India Development Update, the World

Bank said India’s economy will grow 7.2% in fiscal

year 2017-18.

GST, the report said, would lead to higher tax

collection, greater digital financial inclusion and

make India’s fundamentals stronger and yet not

increase the burden on the poor.

Exim Bank extends $500 m LoC to SBM

(Mauritius) Infra

Export-Import Bank of India

(Exim India) has extended a

$500 million line-of-credit

(LoC) to SBM (Mauritius)

Infrastructure Company Ltd.

This LoC has been extended for the purpose of

financing its participation through Redeemable

Preference Shares in public sector entities to

implement infrastructure of other projects in

Mauritius.

This $500 million credit is Exim India’s first

LOC to the SBM, Mauritius.

New Re 1 notes to be circulated soon by RBI

New one rupee notes with a multicoloured look will

soon be put in circulation by the Reserve Bank of

India, the RBI announced.

"The colour of One Rupee currency note shall be

predominantly pink green on obverse and

reverse in combination with others," it added.

Elaborating on the design of the note, the central

bank said it will bear the signature of Economic

Affairs Secretary.

"The numbering shall be in black at right hand

bottom portion of the note," it said.

On the reverse side, the year '2017' is mentioned.

Amul inks MoU with ISRO for fodder acreage

estimation

Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation

(GCMMF) said it has signed an agreement with

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ISRO for fodder acreage assessment using satellite

observation and space technology.

GCMMF markets its products under the brand

name of Amul.

Under the Memorandum of Understanding

(MoU), ISRO will help in identification between

food crops and fodder crops at village level and

also locate suitable areas of current fallows and

cultivable wastelands at village level for green

fodder cultivation.

HDFC Life inks distribution tie-up with Catholic

Syrian Bank

HDFC Life has entered into a bancassurance tie-up

with Catholic Syrian Bank to distribute its individual

life insurance products to the private lender’s

customers.

With this partnership, HDFC Life will offer its

leading range of individual life insurance, health

and pension products to the Catholic Syrian

Bank’s 1.5 million customer base across all its

branches over a period of time.

Points to Remember

The Catholic Syrian Bank Limited (CSB) is an

Indian private sector bank with its headquarters

at Thrissur, Kerala.

It was founded on 26 November 1920.

CVR Rajendran is the Managing Director &

CEO of Catholic Syrian Bank.

AP ropes in Singapore firms to develop start-up

area in Amaravati

Singapore-based Ascendas-Singbridge Pvt Ltd and

Sembcorp Development Ltd were awarded a

contract by the Andhra Pradesh government to act as

the master developer for a start-up area, spanning

1,691 acres, to be built in the upcoming capital city

of Amaravati.

The Rs528 crore project will be completed in

three phases over a span of 15 years.

Ascendas-Singbridge and Sembcorp will form

the Amaravati Development Partner (ADP)

along with the Amaravati Development

Corporation (ADC).

ADP will undertake the master development of

the start-up area, which will be built along with

the development of the 900-acre Government

Core area in Amaravati.

For speedy implementation of the project, a

high-level joint implementation steering

committee (JISC) will also be formed.

India Ratings downgrades IDBI Bank

India Ratings and Research downgraded State-run

IDBI Bank to AA from AA+ and gave a negative

outlook due to challenges arising out of stressed

assets and weak capital position.

The rating agency also downgraded various debt

instruments of the bank.

The Reserve Bank had recently initiated ‘prompt

corrective action’ for the bank on account of

higher NPAs and negative return on assets.

GST rates announced; milk, cereals to be

exempted

The meeting of the 14th GST Council was held in

Srinagar marking participation of Union Finance

Minister, Mr Arun Jaitley, Finance Ministers of all

the states, Finance Secretaries and other taxation

officials from the states and union territories.

The Goods and Services (GST) Council has

agreed on the fitment of almost all commodities

in the various tax slabs under the new indirect

regime to be rolled out on July 1.

Milk, cereals (unpackaged and unbranded), and

jaggery will be exempt from any GST, while

sugar, tea, coffee (except instant), and edible oil

will be taxed at 5%.

Common use items such as soap, toothpaste, and

hair oil, which currently attract a tax rate of 22-

24%, will be taxed at 18%. Coal, which is

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currently taxed at 11.7%, will attract a GST rate

of 5%.

Consumer durables will come under the 28% tax

bracket, down from the current 30-32% rate.

Capital goods and industrial intermediaries will

be taxed at 18%.

Small petrol and diesel cars will be taxed at 28%

with small petrol cars attracting a cess of 1% and

small diesel cars 3%.

Luxury cars will attract a 15% cess in addition to

28% GST.

350 cc bikes will attract a cess of 3%.

25% of new bank branches to be opened in rural

areas: RBI

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has mandated that

25 per cent of the total number of 'banking outlets'

opened during a financial year should be located in

unbanked rural centres.

The RBI mandated this in its notification

"Rationalisation of Branch Authorisation

Policy- Revision of Guidelines".

"Domestic scheduled commercial banks (other

than RRBs) are permitted to open, unless

otherwise specifically restricted, banking outlets

in tier 1 to tier 6 centres without having the need

to take permission from RBI in each case," the

central bank said in the notification.

According to the revised policy, RBI has defined

“a banking outlet” for a scheduled commercial,

a payments bank or a small finance bank as a

fixed point service delivery unit, manned by

either the bank’s staff or its business

correspondent, where services of acceptance of

deposits, encashment of cheques, cash

withdrawal or lending of money are provided for

a minimum of 4 hours per day for at least five

days a week”.

Those outlets which do not meet this criteria will

be called “part-time banking outlet.”

Tata most valuable brand, Airtel at number 2

Tata Group has

retained its

position as

India’s leading

brand with a

brand value of

$13.1 billion in valuation firm Brand Finance’s

annual study of the country’s top 100 names.

Among the other brands in the top 10 list for

2017 are Airtel at number two with a brand value

of $7.7 billion.

DBS Bank India expands bancassurance

partnerships

DBS Bank India has expanded its bancassurance

partnerships with two new partners in Tata AIA Life

and Birla Sun Life, in addition to Aviva India Life.

With this move, the Singapore headquartered

DBS Bank has become the first bank in India to

adopt a new open architecture model with three

life insurers on a single platform.

This is expected to give its clients the freedom to

choose using an analytic-driven, intelligent and

interactive process.

Federal Bank launches new trading platform

Federal Bank, in association with Geojit, has

launched a new trading platform called “Selfie” for

customers.

Designed and managed by Geojit, the trading

platform will give its users absolute control over

their investments with timely research inputs to

make sound investment decisions.

The features of the Selfie Trading Platform are a

uniform experience across multiple platforms

and devices and an advanced charting platform

that enables users to trade directly from charts.

Karnataka Bank, LIC ink pact

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Karnataka Bank Ltd has entered into a memorandum

of understanding (MoU) with Life Insurance

Corporation (LIC) of India for selling life insurance

products of LIC.

The bank signed the corporate agency agreement

with LIC in Mangaluru.

Mahabaleshwara MS, Managing Director and

Chief Executive Officer of the bank, said that the

bank will be able to provide vast choice of life

insurance products to its customers across all its

769 branches with this MoU.

HDFC Life launches India’s first life insurance

email bot

HDFC Life, one of India’s leading private life

insurance companies, announced the launch of

India’s first life insurance email bot.

The email bot, named SPOK, can automatically

read, understand, categorise, prioritise and

respond to customer emails that are sent to

HDFC Life, within milliseconds.

This automation initiative will enable HDFC

Life to respond to user queries faster and more

efficiently and consistently.

India to grow at 7.7% in 2018-19: IMF

India’s growth is expected to rebound to 7.2% in the

2017-18 fiscal and 7.7% in 2018-19 after disruptions

caused by demonetisation, the IMF said.

According to the report, growth in Asia is

forecast to accelerate to 5.5% in 2017 from 5.3%

in 2016.

Growth in China and Japan is revised upward for

2017 compared to the October 2016 World

Economic Outlook.

Jharkhand government partners with Oracle to

boost IT infrastructure

In a bid to ramp up its IT infrastructure, the

Jharkhand government has signed a Memorandum

of Understanding with US-based technology major

Oracle to enhance delivery of services to citizens as

well as make the State more attractive for startups.

The Jharkhand CM also asked Oracle to explore

the option of opening a state-of-the-art software

development centre in the State.

Oracle’s cloud services will be used to support

the State by providing transparent governance.

India to grow 7.5% next year on higher infra

spending, says UN

The Indian economy will grow 7.5 per cent next year

by virtue of consumption revival and higher

infrastructure spending, says a report by the UN

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the

Pacific (ESCAP).

For 2017, India's economic growth is projected

stable at 7.1 per cent before catapulting to 7.5 per

cent going into the next year, the regional

development arm of the the United Nations said.

While, the Manila-headquartered Asian

Development Bank sees the growth jumping to

7.4 per cent in 2017-18 and 7.6 per cent in the

next.

RBI restricts loss making IDBI Bank from hiring,

opening branches

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has initiated

'prompt corrective action' on IDBI Bank which will

restrict bank from hiring, opening branches and

giving big ticket loans.

The directions from the RBI is aimed at ensuring

that the bank takes measures to cut down its

losses by reducing expenses and recovering

problem loans.

The bank had suffered historic loss of Rs 2,255

crore in the December quarter 2016 as it had to

make huge provisions for bad loans.

The 'prompt corrective action' is triggered when

a bank's bad loan is above 6%, it reports losses

for two consecutive years and it falls short of

minimum capital prescribed by the regulator.

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Iowa varsity to set up Mega Seed Park in A.P.

Setting up of a Mega Seed

Park by the Iowa State

University in Andhra

Pradesh and a Memorandum

of Cooperation (MoC) with Iowa State were key

achievements during the visit of Chief Minister N.

Chandrababu Naidu and his team in the United

States.

The State government entered into the MoC with

the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land

Stewardship, Iowa State, to promote research

and development in science, agriculture and life

sciences.

The MoC would help in increasing the seed

production and research, leading to an increase

in crop output.

Sebi allows subscription to MF schemes through

e-wallets

Securities markets regulator Sebi on 8 May

permitted subscription to mutual fund (MF) schemes

through e-wallets.

"With an objective to promote digitalisation,

MFs/AMCs (mutual funds/asset management

companies) can accept investment by an investor

through e-wallets, prepaid payment instruments

(PPIs)," Sebi said in a circular.

According to Sebi's guidelines, investors can

invest up to Rs.50,000 per MF per financial year

through e-wallets.

Points to Remember

A mutual fund is a professionally-managed

investment scheme, usually run by an asset

management company that brings together a

group of people and invests their money in

stocks, bonds and other securities.

All the mutual funds are registered with SEBI.

LIC HFL launches ‘Griha Siddhi’

India’s premier housing financing company has

announced launch of its new home loan product

‘Griha Siddhi’.

Griha Siddhi loans are customized home loan

products that are offered for construction /

purchase of house or flat and repairs/renovation

to the existing properties.

Loans are offered for a maximum tenure of 30

years or retirement age in case of salaried

employees and for other borrowers, the

maximum term is up to 25 years.

Under this plan, the company has created a

special segment for women borrowers for loans

up to Rs.25 lakh at special interest rates of 8.35%

p.a.

For other borrowers, the interest rate will be

charged at 8.40% up to Rs.25 lakh and for loans

up to Rs.1 crore, the interest rate will be 8.50%

p.a.

RBI puts restriction on Uco Bank's business

Reserve Bank of India has put restriction on Uco

Bank’s lending and branch expansion plans as the

state-run lender made net losses for the two

successive fiscal amid severe stress on asset quality.

There would be check on management

compensation and directors’ fees as well as the

sector regulator has invoked prompt corrective

action (PCA) for the bank, aiming to bring it

back on recovery path.

Uco has become the second lender to face

business restrictions after IDBI Bank after RBI

revised its PCA framework last month.

Base year of WPI, IIP revised to 2011-12

The government has revised the base year of

wholesale price index (WPI) and index of industrial

production (IIP) to 2011-12 from 2004-05.

WPI has been changed six times so far since

1942 and this happens to be the 7th revision.

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The IIP base year has also been changed to

ensure that it remains more relevant in the years

that it is operational.

Points to Remember

A base year is the year used for comparison in

the measure of a business activity or economic

index.

H N Sinor resigns from Banks Board Bureau

H N Sinor, a veteran banker, has resigned from the

high profile Banks Board Bureau (BBB), which was

set up in April 2016 to improve governance in public

sector banks.

Banks Board Bureau is an autonomous body of

Union Government of India tasked to improve

the governance of Public Sector Banks,

recommend selection of chiefs of government

owned banks and financial institutions and to

help banks in developing strategies and capital

raising plans.

Vinod Rai is the Chairman of the Mumbai based

Bureau.

SBI setting up separate Amaravati circle for AP

The SBI has bifurcated or separated its operations in

Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and is in the process

of setting up a circle exclusively for Andhra Pradesh,

which will be known as the Amaravati circle.

Mani Palvesan, the Chief General Manager, told

that a separate administrative unit had started

functioning in Amaravati from April 24 but it

would take a little more time to complete the

formalities before notifying it as the Amravati

circle.

Amul to sponsor New Zealand cricket team for

Champions trophy

Gujarat based dairy giant Amul will be the prime

sponsor of the New Zealand cricket team in the

upcoming ICC Champions Trophy that starts on

June 1 in England.

The Blackcaps would sport a new jersey with the

Amul logo on its chest during the tournament.

IIT Kharagpur collaborates with British

Geological Survey to turn Varanasi into smart

city

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has

collaborated with the British Geological Survey to

turn Varanasi into a smart city.

Three dimensional geological modelling of the

geology under Varanasi will be prepared to help

improve the building of new transport and

service infrastructure.

Further, the preservation of archaeological sites

and the management of flooding hazards and the

sustainability of water supplies would also be

undertaken.

Cabinet clears Ordinance to tackle NPA

The Union Cabinet, led

by Prime Minister

Narendra Modi,

approved a new

framework for dealing

with Rs 6 lakh crore

worth of non-

performing assets (NPAs) in the banking system.

• The framework includes the promulgation of

an Ordinance to amend the Banking

Regulation Act to give more teeth to the

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and its

oversight committees to act on behalf of

banks while deciding on NPAs.

• The amendments could give the RBI an

explicit mandate to intervene on behalf of

state-owned banks when deciding on how to

deal with NPAs.

Facebook, Airtel launch Express Wi-Fi in India

Social media giant Facebook has partnered with

country's largest telecom player Airtel to deploy

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20,000 internet hotspots through Facebook's Express

Wi-Fi service in India. These hotspots will be

installed by the company in the coming few months.

• Express Wi-Fi is part of Facebook's

global initiative to spread internet

connectivity.

• It is currently operational in five

countries-India, Kenya, Tanzania,

Nigeria and Indonesia.

• Facebook started testing the service in

2015 and has nearly 700 internet hotspots

already deployed across the four Indian

states of Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Rajasthan

and Meghalaya.

India opens small arms manufacturing unit in

MP in a joint venture with Israel

Strengthening defence ties, India has opened its first

private small arms manufacturing plant at Malanpur,

Madhya Pradesh in a joint venture with Israel.

• The JV company, Punj Lloyd Raksha

Systems Pvt Ltd, will manufacture small

arms in the plant for the Indian defence

forces and also for exports.

• The plant will manufacture weapons like

X95 assault rifle, Galil sniper, Tavor

assault rifle, Negev light machine gun

and the Ace assault rifle, which is similar

to the Tavor but less advanced.

World Health Assembly elects new WHO

Director-General

The Member States of WHO

elected Dr Tedros Adhanom

Ghebreyesus as the new

Director-General of WHO.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was

nominated by the Government of Ethiopia, and

will begin his five-year term on 1 July 2017.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will succeed

Dr Margaret Chan, who has been WHO’s

Director-General since 1 January 2007.

He will be the first health official from Africa to

serve as director-general.

Tedros is a former health and foreign affairs

minister from Ethiopia.

Points to Remember

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a

specialised agency of the United Nations that is

concerned with international public health.

It was established on 7 April 1948,

headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

The WHO is a member of the United Nations

Development Group. Its predecessor, the Health

Organization, was an agency of the League of

Nations.

PV Sindhu elected to BWF Athletes’ Commission

Olympic silver medallist, PV Sindhu, led a trio of

women onto the BWF Athletes' Commission as

voting for four places on the representative body

took place in Gold Coast, Australia.

The Indian athlete topped the ballot with 129

votes with Kirsty Gilmour of Scotland placing

third overall with 103 votes.

Both will serve four-year terms along with

Germany's Marc Zwiebler who received 108

votes.

Lithuania's Akvilė Stapusaityte (25 votes) was

also elected to the Commission. However, she

will only serve two years as she will finish the

term of Tang Yuanting of China.

apan Ray to be the next Economic Affairs

Secretary

The central government on 25 May said that

Corporate Affairs Secretary Tapan Ray will be the

next Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs,

under the Ministry of Finance from 1 June, 2017.

He will replace Shaktikanta Das who is retiring.

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The government had extended Das's tenure by

three months till May 31, 2017.

Syed Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi assumes charge of

Chairman of NCM

Syed Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi assumed charge of the

Chairman of the National Commission for

Minorities in New Delhi.

Syed Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi is a graduate in Arts

and also holds Diploma in Mechanics.

He served as Chairman, U.P Minority Finance

Development Corporation Ltd.

Jaideep Mazumdar appointed next Ambassador

of India to Philippines

Jaideep Mazumdar has been

appointed as the next Ambassador

of India to the Philippines.

The 1989 batch IFS officer is

presently Joint Secretary in the Ministry of

External Affairs.

He is expected to take up the assignment shortly.

Vani Sarraju Rao appointed as the next

Ambassador of India to Finland

Ms. Vani Sarraju Rao (IFS: 1994), has been

appointed as the next Ambassador of India to

Finland.

She is expected to take up her assignment

shortly.

She is presently working as a Joint Secretary in

the Ministry of External Affairs.

Najma Heptulla appointed as 1st woman

chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia

anipur Governor and former minority affairs

minister Najma Heptulla has been appointed as the

chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia.

She has been appointed for a term of five years.

The 77-year-old Heptulla succeeds Lt Gen

(Retd) MA Zaki who completes his five-year

term this month.

She is the first woman chancellor of the

university since its establishment in 1920.

Heptulla who has been a five-time member of

the Rajya Sabha and served as the minister of

minority affairs in Prime Minister Narendra

Modi's Cabinet before being appointed as the

governor of Manipur.

Heptulla has had the distinction of presiding over

the women's parliamentarians' group of the Inter-

Parliamentary Union in 1993.

She was elected President of Inter-Parliamentary

Union (IPU), a Geneva-based international

organisation from 1999 to 2002, and was

nominated by the United Nations Development

Programme (UNDP) as its human development

ambassador.

Government appoints two more members to

Banks Board Bureau

The government has expanded the Banks Board

Bureau (BBB) headed by former CAG Vinod Rai by

adding two more members.

Former Allahabad Bank chairperson and

managing director Shubhalaxmi Panse and

private equity veteran Pradip Shah have been

inducted into the board as independent members.

The body is responsible for selection of MDs and

directors of public sector banks and financial

institutions.

France's Macron names Republican Philippe as

PM

Newly sworn-in French President Emmanuel

Macron has named Edouard Philippe, the 46-year-

old Mayor of Le Havre city, as Prime Minister.

Philippe is a member of the centre-right Les

Republicains party and is close to Alaine Juppe.

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The 39-year-old former investment banker and

economy minister Macron has sworn in the 25th

President of France and also the youngest in the

nation's history.

Yes Bank to appoint Debjani Ghosh as

independent director

Mid-sized private sector lender Yes Bank has

announced the appointment of computer hardware

company Intel’s executive Debjani Ghosh as an

additional director on its board.

Ghosh’s appointment as a non-executive

director will be considered by the shareholders

at the bank’s forthcoming annual general

meeting on June 6, a bank statement said.

She has been associated with Intel since 1996

and has held positions including country head

and managing director for South Asia.

Indian appointed to high-level UN climate change

post

A senior Indian official has been appointed as the

deputy executive secretary of the United Nations

Framework Convention on Climate Change

(UNFCCC), under which the landmark Paris

agreement was negotiated and adopted.

Ovais Sarmad, 57, was appointed to the post at

the assistant secretary-general level by UN

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Sarmad will succeed Richard Kinley of Canada.

Paytm Payments Bank names Renu Satti as the

new CEO

India's leading digital wallet player Paytm has

received the final licence from the Reserve Bank of

India for its payments bank entity.

With this, the road is now clear for the Noida-

based payments player to kickstart its much-

awaited payments bank operations from May 23,

2017.

Paytm has also announced that its long time

executive and vice president Renu Satti will be

the CEO of the payments bank.

Raj Kumar joins LIC-MF as whole time director

LIC Mutual Fund has said that Raj Kumar has joined

the fund house as a whole time director effective

from April 28.

The position was created after Sarojini Dikhale

was transferred to LIC as executive director,

marketing and product development some time

back.

Minister of Science Harsh Vardhan Gets

Additional Charge of Environment

Dr. Harsh Vardhan, the

Minister of Science and

Technology and Earth

Sciences, has been given

additional charge of the

Environment Ministry, following the demise of Anil

Dave.

Anil Madhav Dave, the incumbent minister of

Environment, passed away on May 18.

Dr Harsh Vardhan was appointed as the health

minister when the Narendra Modi government

came into power in 2014, a post he held for 5

months.

DRDO chief S Christopher gets one-year

extension

Eminent scientist S Christopher was given a one-

year extension, till May next year, as chief of the

Defence Research and Development Organisation

(DRDO).

Christopher is also Secretary, Department of

Defence Research and Development (DoDRD).

He will continue to hold both the charges for one

more year.

Christopher was in May 2015 appointed Director

General of the DRDO for a two-year term.

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Hassan Rouhani wins second term as Iran

president

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has been re-elected

with an emphatic victory, official results show.

Out of more than 40 million votes cast, he

received 57%, defeating his main rival, a

conservative cleric.

Mr Rouhani, a moderate who agreed a deal with

world powers to limit Iran's nuclear programme,

pledged to remain true to his promises.

Sohail Mahmood all set to take over as Pakistan's

new envoy to India

The government has

approved the

appointment of top

Pakistan diplomat

Sohail Mahmood as

Pakistan's next high commissioner to India.

Mahmood has been given visa to allow him to

take over from incumbent Abdul Basit this

month.

Mahmood is currently working as Pakistan's

ambassador to Turkey.

CBDT chief Sushil Chandra gets one-year

extension

Senior bureaucrat Sushil Chandra was given one-

year extension till May 2018 as chairman of the

Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).

This is the first time that a CBDT chief has been

given an extension beyond the set tenure.

He had taken over as chief of CBDT, the apex

policy making body of the Income Tax

department, on November 1 last year.

Points to Remember

The Central Board of Direct Taxes is a statutory

authority functioning under the Central Board of

Revenue Act, 1963.

The CBDT is headed by a chairman and can have

a maximum of six members.

Venu Rajamony appointed India’s Ambassador

to Netherlands

Press Secretary to President Pranab Mukherjee and

senior diplomat Venu Rajamony has been appointed

India’s Ambassador to the Netherlands.

Rajamony will also be India’s Permanent

Representative to the Organisation for

Prevention of Chemical Weapons based in The

Hague.

He has served in the Indian Mission in Hong

Kong and done two terms in the Indian Embassy

in Beijing.

Moon Jae-in elected South Korea President

South Korea's presidential election has been won by

Moon Jae-in, a liberal who favors a more open

policy toward North Korea.

Moon, the Democratic Party's candidate to

replace ousted President Park Geun-hye, was

declared the winner by the country's National

Election Commission.

With 100% of the votes counted, Moon won with

41.08%, the commission said.

Points to Remember

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is

a sovereign state in East Asia, constituting the

southern part of the Korean Peninsula.

South Korea, along with Taiwan, Singapore and

Hong Kong (China) is one of the four high-tech

industrialized developed countries often referred

to as the Four Asian Economic Dragons.

Today, it is the world's seventh largest advanced

economy and fifth largest exporter with the

G20's largest budget surplus and highest credit

rating of any country in East Asia.

It has free trade agreements with 75% of the

world economy and is the only G20 nation

trading freely with China, the US and the EU

simultaneously.

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Twitter elevates Taranjeet Singh as Country

Director for India

Microblogging platform

Twitter said that it has

elevated Taranjeet Singh as

its Country Director for India.

Mr. Singh was earlier leading the charge for

sales and marketing support for Twitter’s

advertisers in India.

In his new role, Mr.Singh will lead the team by

driving an integrated business strategy and

spearheading cross-functional collaboration.

South Korean President Appoints Governor Lee

Nak-Yon as PM

Newly-elected South Korean President Moon Jae-in

appointed South Jeolla Province Governor Lee Nak-

yon as prime minister.

Moon also offered Suh Hoon to lead the South

Korean intelligence agency and Im Jong-seok

to serve as the presidential chief of staff.

Sanjay Mitra to be next Defence Secretary

Road and Transport Secretary Sanjay Mitra will be

the next Defence Secretary.

Mitra, a 1982 batch IAS officer of West Bengal

cadre, will succeed G Mohan Kumar whose

tenure ends May 24.

Mark Lowcock appointed UN humanitarian

chief

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has decided

to appoint Mark Lowcock, the head of Britain's

international development department, to be the

world body's new humanitarian aid chief.

The 54-year-old career civil servant will replace

Stephen O'Brien, who held the post for two

years, serving in what is widely viewed as one of

the UN's most demanding jobs.

Lowcock has served as the permanent secretary

for Britain's department of international

development since 2011 and held various senior

posts at the department since he began his career

there in 1985.

Leena Nair takes over as Secretary Tribal Affairs

Ms Leena Nair took over the charge of Secretary,

Ministry of Tribal Affairs in New Delhi.

She is an IAS officer of 1982 batch of Tamil

Nadu cadre.

Before this appointment she was serving as

Secretary for Ministry of Women and Child

Development.

Amitabh Bachchan Appointed WHO Goodwill

Ambassador For Hepatitis

Celebrated Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan, a

Hepatitis B conqueror, was appointed the WHO

Goodwill Ambassador for the Hepatitis awareness

programme in southeast Asia region.

The veteran actor has been brought on board to

boost awareness and intensify action to arrest the

Hepatitis epidemic.

The actor will lend his voice and support to

public awareness programmes that aim to scale

up preventive measures and advocate for early

diagnosis and treatment of viral Hepatitis to

reduce the disease burden.

Justice Mukul Mudgal elected head of FIFA

Governance Committee

Justice (Retd.) Mukul Mudgal was elected as head

of FIFA’s governance committee at the world

football governing body’s 67th Congress in

Bahrain’s capital city of Manama.

Justice Mudgal’s name was proposed by the

FIFA Council for the vacant position of the

governance chief after Miguel Maduro was

reportedly ‘fired’ for his role in blocking Russian

World Cup official Vitaly Mutko from retaining

his seat on ruling council.

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Vinay Mohan Kwatra named India’s new

ambassador to France

Seasoned diplomat Vinay Mohan Kwatra, currently

a joint secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, has

been appointed as India’s next ambassador to

France.

A 1988-batch foreign service officer, Kwatra

will succeed Mohan Kumar, who is retiring.

Apart from having experience of dealing with

the UN organisations such as International

Labour Organisation (ILO) and World Health

Organisation (WHO), he has served in Indian

diplomatic missions in China and the US.

Bahamas elects Hubert Minnis as new prime

minister

The Bahamas has elected

Hubert Minnis of the Free

National Movement (FNM)

as their new leader,

defeating Perry Christie's Progressive Liberal Party

in a 34-5 parliamentary split, according to local

media.

Christie, finishing his second non-consecutive

term as prime minister, was criticised for

defiantly boasting that "not even God" could

stop him.

The election was closely monitored by

international observers the Caribbean

Community, the Commonwealth of Nations, the

Organization of American States and the United

States.

Points to Remember

The Bahamas, known officially as the

Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is an

archipelagic state within the Lucayan

Archipelago.

Nassau is the capital of the Bahamas while

Dollar is its Currency.

V K Saraswat appointed new JNU Chancellor

Scientist and former director general of Defence

Research and Development Organisation (DRDO),

V K Saraswat, was appointed as Chancellor of

Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Saraswat succeeds former ISRO chairman K

Kasturirangan, who completed his term on

March 30 this year.

Saraswat has been appointed for a term of five

years.

A PhD in combustion engineering, Saraswat

played a very significant role in the development

of the country’s first liquid propulsion engine —

Devil.

SAFE appoints BSE CEO Ashishkumar

Chauhan as its new chairman

Ashishkumar Chauhan, the managing director and

chief executive officer of BSE is appointed as the

new chairman of South Asian Federation of

Exchanges (SAFE).

SAFE is a forum of 28 member countries created

with the objective of development of capital

markets and collectively share, exchange and

promote technologies.

The forum includes countries from the Saarc

regions, Bangladesh, Maldives, Afghanistan,

Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan

and other countries like UAE and Mauritius.

Ilir Meta elected as new President of Albania

lir Meta was elected as President of the Republic of

Albania with 87 votes pro and 2 against.

Parliament of Albania, which convened in an

extraordinary session, has voted the candidacy

of Ilir Meta as President of the Republic.

While 89 deputies have voted in total, the

election of president in this fourth round requires

71 votes in favor.

Ilir Meta will hold the post of President of the

Republic for the period 2017-2022.

Points to Remember

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Albania is a country in Southeastern Europe.

Tirana is the nation's capital and largest city. Lek

is the currency of Albania.

Edi Rama is the Prime Minister of Albania.

Mallikarjun Kharge appointed New Chairman of

PAC

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge is

appointed the new chairman of the 21-member

Public Accounts Committee of Parliament.

• Kharge replaces Congress leader K V

Thomas whose term ended on April 30.

• The Parliamentary panel, which is headed by

an opposition leader, has a majority of its

members from the ruling NDA. The new

committee has only two new faces while the

remaining members have been renominated.

Subhash Chandra Baheria and Ram Shankar,

both of the BJP, have replaced their party

members Richard Hay and Janardan Singh

Sigriwal.

Points To Remember:-

• PAC became a Parliamentary committee on

January 26, 1950. Since 1967, a convention

has been established whereby an eminent

leader from the opposition in Lok Sabha is

appointed as its chairperson.

• The Committee on Public Accounts is the

oldest Parliamentary committee that

examines the accounts showing the

appropriation of sums granted by Parliament

for expenditure of Government of India and

such other accounts of autonomous and

semi-autonomous bodies.

• The PAC is formed every year with a

strength of not more than 22 members of

which 15 are from Lok Sabha, the lower

house of the Parliament, and 7 from Rajya

Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament .

IBBI constitutes Committee to lay down

Technical Standards for the performance of core

services

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy

Board of India (IBBI) has

constituted a Technical

Committee in accordance with

Regulation 14 of the IBBI (Information Utilities)

Regulations, 2017.

• The Technical Committee shall consist

of four members.

• Chairman of the National Statistical

Commission, Dr. R. B. Barman will be

chairperson of the Committee.

Prabhat Kamal bezboruah 1st non-IAS to head

tea board

Renowned tea planter from Assam Prabhat Kamal

Bezboruah has been named the new chairman of the

Tea Board of India.

• With this, Bezboruah becomes the first

non-IAS to be at the helm of the Kolkata-

headquartered Tea Board.

• Renowned coffee grower M S Boje

Gowda was appointed as chairman of the

Coffee Board.

Govt appoints MDs, CEOs of seven public sector

banks

The government has appointed new managing

directors and chief executive officers of seven public

sector banks.

The new appointments are:

• R Subramaniakumar: MD and CEO of

the Indian Overseas Bank (IOB).

• Rajkiran Rai G: MD and CEO of the

Union Bank of India.

• Sunil Mehta: MD and CEO in the Punjab

National Bank.

• Usha Ananthasubramanian: Allahabad

Bank as its new MD and CEO.

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• Dinabandhu Mohapatra: MD and CEO

of the Bank of India.

• M O Rego: MD and CEO Syndicate

Bank.

• R A Sankara Narayanan: MD and CEO

of Vijaya Bank.

Young Indian cartoonist wins top

conservation award

Rohan Chakravarty, a

wildlife and environment

cartoonist from India, has

won this year’s

International President’s

Award for his efforts to

change attitudes towards nature.

The award is the top accolade given by World

Wildlife Fund to recognise leadership in young

conservationists who are under the age of 30

from around the world.

Paradip Port gets Shipping Ministry award

The Paradip Port Trust has been awarded by the

Union Shipping Ministry for witnessing the second

highest growth in traffic for FY17.

In FY17, the port has handled 88.95 MMT of

cargo; a 16.5 per cent rise over the

During the year, the port’s berth-day output

improved to 23139 MT with 12.24 per cent

growth.

Cannes Film Festival 2017: Winners

The 70th annual Cannes Film Festival took place

from 17 to 28 May 2017, in Cannes, France. Here

are the winners:-

Caméra d’Or (best first feature):Jeune Femme

Best short film: A Gentle Night

Jury prize: Loveless

Best actress: Diane Kruger

Best actor: Joaquin Phoenix

Best director: Sofia Coppola

Grand Prix: 120 Beats per Minute

70th Anniversary prize: Nicole Kidman

Palme d’Or: The Square

Pune police bagged smart policing award 2017

The Pune city police have bagged the Federation of

Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries'

(FICCI) Smart Policing Award for the year 2017.

Out of 133 entries from the state police forces,

the 'Mahila Suraksha' project of city police won

the award.

Rashmi Shukla, Commissioner of Pune Police

received the award at event held at Delhi

recently.

Barcelona's Lionel Messi wins Golden Shoe for

fourth time

Lionel Messi has won the European Golden Shoe for

a record-equalling fourth time, drawing level with

Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo.

This award is given for scoring highest number

of goals in European season.

Messi previously won the award in 2010, 2012

and 2013.

Priyanka Chopra to be honoured with

Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award

Priyanka Chopra will receive the prestigious

Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award in a new

category that has been introduced by the jury - the

'International Acclaimed Actress Award'.

The 'Mary Kom' actress will be the first recipient

of this award.

Priyanka's mother Madhu Chopra too will be

honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke Award in the

Best Film category for her maiden production,

'Ventilator'.

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WHO honours Health Minister Nadda with

Award

Union Health Minister J P Nadda has been honoured

by the World Health Organisation with the Director

General’s Special Recognition Award for his

leadership and commitment to advancing tobacco

control,

Health ministers of Maldives and Bhutan were

also among five individuals and institutions

from the WHO South-East Asia Region for this

year’s World No-Tobacco Day Award.

Nadda is also among the two recipients of the

special global award this year. The Ministry of

Finance and Economic Affairs of the Republic

of the Gambia is the other awardee.

Chamling conferred with first BS Shekhawat

award by President

Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling was

conferred with the first Bhairon Singh Shekhawat

Lifetime Achievement Honour in Public Service by

President Pranab Mukherjee.

The award was conferred during the first

Bhairon Singh Shekhawat memorial lecture

delivered by the President.

Chamling, who was first elected to power in

1994, is all set to break the record of Jyoti Basu

as longest serving Chief Minister in India.

Known as the 'Land of Flowers' with a

population of around six lakhs, Sikkim is gaining

popularity as first fully organic state in India.

Indian scientist Shrinivas Kulkarni wins Dan

David Prize

Indian scientist Shrinivas Kulkarni has won the

prestigious Dan David prize for his contribution in

the field of astronomy.

He is a professor of astrophysics and planetary

science at California Institute of Technology in

Pasadena.

The $1 million prize is a joint international

enterprise endowed by the Dan David

Foundation headquartered at Tel Aviv

University.

David Letterman Wins Mark Twain Prize

David Letterman was named 2017 recipient of the

Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the award

granted annually by the John F. Kennedy Center for

the Performing Arts.

He will officially receive the prize in a ceremony

that will be held on October 22.

Previous winners of the Mark Twain Prize

include Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Jay Leno,

Carol Burnett and Ellen DeGeneres.

Prestigious Whitley Award for Sanjay Gubbi and

Purnima Barman

Sanjay Gubbi of Karnataka and Purnima Barman of

Assam have won the prestigious Whitley Award,

popularly known as Green Oscars, for their efforts

in wildlife conservation.

The awards are instituted by the U.K.-registered

charity Whitley Fund for Nature, which supports

nature conservationists in their endeavour to

conserve wildlife and nature.

While Mr. Gubbi has been awarded for his work

to protect tiger corridors in Karnataka, Ms.

Barman has won the award for her work in

conservation of Assam’s Greater Adjutant Stork

and its habitat.

Indian-origin steel tycoon bags global award in

UK

Britain's Indian-

origin steel

tycoon Sanjeev

Gupta has bagged

a top global

award for his

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successful acquisitions and drive to transform the

steel industry in the UK, India and beyond.

Gupta, the executive chairman of the Liberty

House Group received the title of 'CEO of the

Year' at the prestigious Platts Global Metals

Awards in London.

2 Indian peacekeepers to be honored with UN

Medal

wo Indian peacekeepers will be among 117 military,

police and civilian personnel to be honored with a

prestigious UN medal awarded posthumously for

their courage and sacrifice in the line of duty.

Rifleman Brijesh Thapa who served with the UN

Organisation Stabilization Mission in the

Democratic Republic of the Congo

(MONUSCO) and Ravi Kumar who was

deployed with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon

(UNIFIL) will be honoured with the Dag

Hammarskjold Medal on the International Day

of UN Peacekeepers to be observed on May 24.

In tribute to Kalam, NASA names new species

after him

Scientists at NASA have named a new organism

discovered by them after former president and

scientist APJ Abdul Kalam.

Till date, the new organism—a form of a

bacteria—has been found only on the

International Space Station (ISS) and has not

been found on earth.

Researchers at the NASA for work on inter-

planetary travel, discovered the new bacteria on

the filters of the International Space Station

(ISS) and named it Solibacillus kalamii to

honour the late president.

Indian wins top intel science award in US

An Indian boy Prashant Ranganathan has won the

world's largest pre-college science competition in

the US in the environmental engineering category

for his project on biodegradation of pesticides.

Prashant Ranganathan, a 12th grader from

Jamshedpur, along with over 20 high school

students from various parts of India, participated

in the Intel International Science and

Engineering Fair.

Reliance Jio gets 'Digital Service Innovator of the

Year Award'

Reliance Jio has received TM

Forum's 'Digital Service

Innovator of the Year Award'

2017.

TM Forum is the industry association driving

digital business transformation of the

communications industry.

Reliance Jio got this award by acquiring 90

million customers in four months.

13-year-old Indian girl wins Asia yoga

championship

Thirteen-year-old Vaishnavi of India beat hundreds

of competitors to win the first Asia Level Yoga

Competition.

The competition, featuring teams from five

nations, was held in Thailand on May 13 and 14.

June 21 is International Day of Yoga. The U.N.

designated the day on the urging of Indian Prime

Minister Narendra Modi who said yoga lets

people “discover the sense of oneness with

yourself, the world, and the nature.”

Jacqueline Fernandez wins UK humanitarian

award

Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez received the

International Humanitarian Award and writer

Jeffrey Archer the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Instituted by Asian Voice, a leading British

Asian newsweekly, the “charity of the year”

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award was presented to Anxiety UK, which

works to help people with anxiety disorders.

Fernandez has teamed up with the charity

Habitat for Humanity.

Archer was given the Lifetime Achievement

Award for services to various charity

organisations over the years.

Cochin Port Trust bags Best Performance

Awards from Ministry of Shipping

Cochin Port Trust has received two Best

Performance Awards from Ministry of Shipping,

one for achieving the highest growth in operating

surplus and the other for achieving third highest

growth in cargo traffic among the Major Ports in the

year 2016-17.

The Awards were received from Nitin Gadkari,

Hon’ble Union Minister for Road Transport &

Highways and Shipping by P Raveendran,

Chairman and Shri A.V. Ramana, Dy.

Chairman, Cochin Port Trust.

Cochin Port Trust has registered the operating

profit of Rs. 127.72 crores during 2016-17 as

against Rs. 70.89 crores during 2015-16

recording a growth of 80%.

Operating profit during 2014-15 was only Rs.

19.55 crores.

Emma Watson bags first ever ‘genderless’ award

Hollywood actor Emma

Watson picked up the first-

ever Genderless Acting

Award for the Best Actor

category at the MTV Movie and TV Awards.

Watson’s performance in Disney’s live-action

remake of Beauty and the Beast won her the

gong for best actor in a movie, a category that

featured both male and female nominees.

Mukti Bhawan Wins The Best Film Award At

The New York Indian Film Festival

fter winning a special mention at the National Film

Awards, Mukti Bhawan has now gone on winning

the Best Film at the New York Indian Film Festival

(NYIFF).

The film that revolves around the man who

accompanies his father on a journey to Varanasi

is a film that is winning praises all over.

Chanda Kochhar receives Woodrow Wilson

Award ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochhar has

become the first Indian woman to be conferred with

the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Award for Global

Corporate Citizenship.

Kochhar, 55, received the annual award which

was instituted in 1998 by the prestigious Wilson

Center.

She has joined the league of former Indian

recipients-- former President and space scientist

APJ Abdul Kalam and IT honcho Narayana

Murthy.

Sudarsan Pattnaik wins gold medal at 10th

Moscow sand art championship

Noted sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik from Odisha has

won the jury prize gold medal at the10th Moscow

Sand Art Championship.

Twenty five sculptors from different countries

around the world had participated in the

championship on the theme - "World Around

Us".

Pattnaik had created a 10 feet high sand

sculpture of Lord Ganesh and inscribed "Go

Green" on the statue.

Recently, Pattnaik had created world's tallest

sand castle at Puri beach.

shwani Kumar to be conferred with Japan's top

honour

Japan has selected former union minister for Law

and Justice Ashwani Kumar for this year's Spring

Imperial Decorations, for his contribution to

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strengthening of the bilateral ties and promotion of

friendship between Tokyo and New Delhi.

Kumar will be conferred with the Grand Cordon

of the Order of the Rising Sun, the highest

category of decorations among the Orders of the

Rising Sun, in recognition of distinguished

accomplishments of individuals.

The Presentation Ceremony for the Investiture of

the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun

will be held at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on

May 9.

Shabana Azmi awarded in Houston Film Festival

Hollywood film The

Black Prince,

featuring singer-poet

Satinder Sartaaj and

veteran actress

Shabana Azmi, was

awarded the Special Jury Remi Award at the 50th

annual World fest-Houston International Film

Festival.

• The film is a historic biopic on the poignant

life story of the last king of Punjab -

Maharajah Duleep Singh.

• Sartaaj, who marks his acting debut with the

film, essays the role of Maharajah Duleep

Singh while Shabana portrays Rani Jindan,

the exiled King’s mother.

Rajive Kaul gets diplomatic service award from

South Korea

Chairman of Nicco group and past president of CII

Rajive Kaul was conferred with the Order of

Diplomatic Service Merit Sungnye Medal of the

Republic of Korea for his services rendered as

honorary consul general of South Korea in Kolkata.

• The award was conferred by the acting

President and Prime Minister of South Korea

Hwang Kyo-ahn .

Points to Remember:-

• The acting President and Prime Minister of

South Korea is Hwang Kyo-ahn.

• Capital:-Seoul

• Government:-Unitary Presidential

Constitutional Republic

• Currency:-South Korean Won

Padma Venkataraman bestowed with

Avvaiyar award

Tamil Nadu government has honoured social worker

Padma Venkataraman with the state’s “Avvaiyar

Award” for 2017.

• Padma, daughter of former President of

India, the late R Venkataraman, was

honoured for her efforts in the areas of

women’s welfare and rehabilitation of

leprosy-affected persons for the past 30

years.

• The “Avvaiyar Award” was constituted

by late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in

2012 to honour women actively working

in the areas of social reform, women’s

development, culture, media, inter-faith

harmony, and administration, among

others.

Sachin Tendulkar awarded Asian

Awards Fellowship

Former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has become only

the fourth person ever to receive The Fellowship

Award since the inception of these awards seven

years ago.

Other winners included:

• Chinese snooker player Ding Junhui:

Outstanding achievement in sport

• Journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy:

Outstanding achievement in television

• British doctor Jack Preger: Philanthropist

of the year

• Sir Harpal Kumar: Outstanding

contribution to the community

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• Ajay Banga: Business leader of the year

• Masayoshi Son: Entrepreneur of the year

award

• Nicha Dutt: Social entrepreneur of the

year award

• Demis Hassabis: Outstanding

achievement in science & technology

• Adnan Sami: Outstanding achievement

in music

• Sunny Pawar: Rising star of the year

Sweden beat Canada to win ice hockey world title

Sweden have won the ice

hockey world

championship, beating

favourites Canada in a

dramatic penalty shootout.

The teams were tied at 1-1 after three periods in

Cologne, Germany, with Victor Hedman scoring

for the Swedes and Canada's Ryan O'Reilly

equalising.

By winning their 10th world title, Sweden

dethroned last year's champions.

In the bronze medal game, Russia beat Finland

5-3.

South Korea Defeat China to Win 2017

Sudirman Cup

South Korea shocked badminton giants China in the

final of the 2017 Sudirman Cup, ending the team's

run of six straight titles with a 3-2 win.

China hadn't lost a single finals match since

2005, but impressive showings in the last two

doubles matches handed South Korea the title.

It's the nation's fourth title, with the last one

coming in 2003.

Sebastian Vettel wins Monaco Grand Prix

Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel won a slow-burning

Monaco Grand Prix to extend his championship lead

over Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton to 25 points.

Hamilton finished seventh after a difficult race

from 13th on the grid.

Raikkonen (Ferrari)finished second while

Ricciardo (Red Bull) finished third.

IPL10: Mumbai Indians lift trophy beat Rising

Pune Supergiant

Mumbai Indians snatch an incredible one-run

victory from the jaws of defeat against Rising Pune

Supergiant to lift Indian Premier League season 10

trophy.

This was Mumbai Indians' third IPL trophy in 10

editions and more special for their skipper Rohit

Sharma, who is the only captain to win three

titles. Rohit has in fact won four IPL titles (one

for Deccan Chargers in 2009).

Points to Remember

Orange Cap: David Warner (641 Runs)

Purple Cap: Bhuvneshwar Kumar (26 Wickets)

Emerging player of the season: Basil Thampi

Fairplay award: Gujarat Lions

Most Valuable Player of the season: Ben Stokes

Man of the Final: Krunal Pandya

Zverev beats Djokovic to win Italian Open

Alexander Zverev signaled his anticipated arrival

among the tennis elite by defeating Novak Djokovic

6-4, 6-3 to win the Italian Open.

The 20-year-old Zverev became the youngest

player to win a Masters 1000 event.

Earlier, Ukrainian Elina Svitolina clinched

Italian open beating Simona Halep 4-6, 7-5, 6-1

in the women's final.

Federation Cup: Bengaluru FC beat Mohun

Bagan 2-0 to win title

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Bengaluru FC were crowned champions of the 38th

edition of the Hero Federation Cup after they

defeated Mohun Bagan 2-0 at the Barabati Stadium

in Cuttack.

In a final largely dominated by Bengaluru FC,

Alberto Roca's men left it late to finish

proceedings as CK Vineeth's 107th and 119th

minute strike proved to be the difference

between the both sides.

Points to Remember

The Federation Cup, also known as Hero

Federation Cup for sponsorship reasons, is an

annual knockout style club football tournament

in India that started in 1977.

Mohun Bagan has lifted the Federation Cup for

record 14 times.

Vikram Malhotra wins 5th PSA title

India's Squash player Vikram Malhotra won his fifth

PSA title after beating Egypt's Youssef Ibrahim in

the final of the Abu Dhabi Open.

The US-based Indian won 6-11 11-4 11-3 9-11

13-11 against his opponent.

In the semi-final, he took out Pakistan's Khwaja

Adil Maqbool who retired in the third game after

trailing by two games.

Shiva Thapa bags silver at Asian

Boxing Championships

Indian boxer Shiva

Thapa (60kg) had to

settle for a silver medal

after an injury-forced

loss in the at the Asian

Boxing Championships.

However, with this medal Thapa became the first

Indian to claim three back-to-back medals at the

event.

India’s last gold medal at the Asian meet had

come in 2013 through Shiva, when he was

competing in the bantamweight division.

Prior to that M Suranjoy Singh (52kg) had won

a gold medal in the 2009 edition of the

Championship.

Olive Ridley to be mascot of Asian Athletics

Odisha capital Bhubaneswar is gearing up for

hosting the 22nd Asian Athletics Championship at

the Kalinga Stadium scheduled in July, the

endangered Olive Ridley turtle will enhance the

attraction of the mega event.

The decision to make Olive Ridley as mascot of

the event was taken at the first governing body

meeting chaired by Odisha Sports Minister

Sudam Marndi for holding the Asian Athletics

Championship.

Around 600 athletes including 20 world

champions of 45 countries will participate at the

international event.

The Government has formed 14 different

committees for smooth conduct of the

competitions.

Jhulan Goswami becomes leading wicket-taker

in women's ODIs

Former India captain Jhulan Goswami has surpassed

Australian Cathryn Fitzpatrick to become the

leading wicket-taker in Women's One-Day

International (ODI) cricket, taking her haul to 181

wickets from 153 outings.

The 34-year-old pacer took three wickets against

hosts South Africa during the ongoing Women's

Quadrangular Series to achieve the landmark.

With 271 International wickets (Tests, ODIs and

T20I), Goswami, who was once the fastest

bowler in women's cricket has been the mainstay

of India women bowling unit since her debut in

2002.

Harpreet Singh wins bronze medal at Asian

Wrestling Championship

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Harpreet Singh was the lone bright spot for India on

the opening day of the Asian Wrestling

Championship as he bagged a bronze medal in

Greco-Roman 80kg category.

Harpreet bagged his second successive bronze

medal at the Asian Championship after defeating

Junjie Na of China 3-2.

Vinesh, Sakshi, Divya win silver medals at Asian

Wrestling Championships

After bronze medal for Ritu Phogat at Asian

Wrestling Championships, Sakshi Malik, Vinesh

Phogat and Divya Kakran added silver medals to

India’s kitty at the Asian event at the KD Jadhav

Stadium in New Delhi.

Where Ritu won bronze in the 48kg category,

Vinesh and Sakshi brought laurels to the country

in the 55kg and 60kg categories respectively.

Later in the day, Kakran won a silver medal in

the 69kg category.

Asian Wrestling Championship: Bajrang Punia

wins India's first gold

Bajrang Punia won the first gold medal for India at

the Asian Wrestling Championship by defeating Lee

Seungchul of South Korea in the final of the men's

65 kg Freestyle division.

Bajrang staged a superb comeback after

conceding the lead to dominate the second and

final round and script a comprehensive 6-2 win.

Sarita added to cheer for the sizeable home

crowd as she took silver in the women's 58

kilogram category.

Hamilton wins Spanish Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton won the Spanish Grand Prix from

pole position to cut Sebastian Vettel's overall lead in

the Formula One championship to six points with a

quarter of the season completed.

The Mercedes driver's 55th career win was hard-

fought and tense.

Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel finished second.

Arjun Maini first Indian to win a GP3 race

Arjun Maini, driving for

Jenzer Motorsports, created

history by becoming the first

Indian driver to win a GP3

race when he claimed the

sprint race.

The 19-year old scored his first win in two years

ahead of Frenchman Dorian Boccolacci and

teammate Alessio Lorandi of Italy.

Rafael Nadal beats Dominic Thiem to win

Madrid Open

the Madrid Open final to win his third straight title

and continue his good form heading into the French

Open.

Nadal earned his 15th straight victory on clay

and tie Novak Djokovic’s record of 30 career

titles in Masters 1000 events.

The triumph at his home tournament gave Nadal

his 72nd career title, and 52nd on clay.

Aizawl FC win I-League title

In one of the biggest achievements in Indian football

history, unheralded Aizawl FC lifted the I-League

crown after they held Shillong Lajong 1-1 in a tense

match.

Aizawl ended the league on 37 points while

Mohun Bagan finished second on 36.

They have won the I-League title in their second

season, becoming the first club from the

Northeast to bag the title.

Joshna Chinappa wins historic Asian squash title

Joshna Chinappa scripted history by becoming the

first Indian to clinch the Asian Squash title with a

thrilling win over compatriot Dipika Pallikal Karthik

in the women’s final in Chennai.

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In the men’s final, however, Saurav Ghosal went

down fighting against No.1 seed Max Lee to

finish second.

Chinappa held off a fighting Pallikal 13-15, 12-

10, 11-13, 11-4, 11-4 in 78 minutes to win

probably her biggest title.

hiv Kapur Ends 12-year Wait for Asian Tour

Title in Taiwan

Indian golfer Shiv Kapur lifted his first Asian Tour

title in 12 years, winning the USD 300,000

Yeangder Heritage Championships with a blemish-

free eight-under 64 in the final round.

Gavin Green (67) and Yikeun Chang (68) were

tied for second at 14-under at the National Golf

Country Club.

Oorja CAPFs Talent-hunt inaugurated in

Jharkhand

Jharkhand Governor Droupadi Murmu inaugurated

the Oorja CAPFs under-19 football talent hunt

tournament at the Mega Sports Complex.

• Its aim is to select talented players and give

them opportunity at the national and

international level.

• She said that Jharkhand produced talented

sports personalities like M S Dhoni, Deepika

Kumari, Saurav Tiwari, Sumerai Tete and

others.

• Tete is the the brand ambassador of the

tournament.

• The Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs)

have been tasked to conduct Oorja - CAPFs

Under-19 Football Talent Hunt

Tournament 2017.

• CAPFs are jointly organizing the tournament

under the aegis of All India Police Sports

Control Board throughout the country

between May 1 and 15.

Mark Selby retains Snooker World Title

England’s Mark Selby produced a magnificent

comeback to beat John Higgins 18-15 in the final of

the World snooker championship and win the global

crown for the third time.

• Selby became only the fourth player after

Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry and Ronnie

O’Sullivan to win back-to-back titles since

the event was first held at The Crucible in

1977.

Sports to be included in the national youth

awards

The Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports,

Vijay Goel, announced a wide spectrum of fields

including sports that would fetch the national youth

awards.

• Minister said that instead of the States

nominating the persons or organisation for

the National Youth Awards, it would be an

online process henceforth.

• Instead of one organisation, the award would

be given to ten organisations every year for

their services in the field of health, research,

innovation, culture, promotion of human

rights, art and literature, tourism, traditional

medicines, active citizenship, community

service, sports and academic excellence.

Points to Remember:-

• First National Youth awards were presented

in 1985.

• Instead of one organisation, the award would

be given to ten organisations every year, the

award has been enhanced to Rs. 200,000 , a

trophy and a certificate.

• The individual awards of 50,000 each,

increased from 40,000, apart from a medal

and certificate would be given to 25 eligible

youth in the age group of 15 to 29 years .

Azlan Shah Cup: India settle for bronze, Great

Britain win gold

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India pick up the bronze medal as they brushed aside

New Zealand 4-0 in Ipoh at the Sultan Azlan Shah

Hockey tournament.

In the final, Great Britain beat World Champions

Australia 4-3 to lift the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup.

Points to Remember

The Sultan Azlan Shah Cup is an annual

international men's field hockey tournament held

in Malaysia.

It began in 1983 as a biennial contest. The

tournament became an annual event after 1998.

The tournament is named after the ninth King of

Malaysia, Sultan Azlan Shah, an avid fan of

hockey.

Sir Roger Moore, James Bond actor, dies aged 89

Actor Sir Roger Moore,

best known for playing

James Bond, has died

due to cancer aged 89.

He played the

famous spy in seven

Bond films including Live and Let Die and A

View to a Kill.

Sir Roger was also well known for his

humanitarian work - he was introduced to Unicef

by the late Audrey Hepburn and was appointed

as a goodwill ambassador in 1991.

Former Punjab DGP KPS Gill passes away

Kanwar Pal Singh Gill, one of India’s most

celebrated cops, passed away in New Delhi. He was

82.

Popularly known as the ‘Lion of Punjab’ and

‘Super Cop’, Gill has also been an advisor to

Gujarat and Chhattisgarh governments, a hockey

administrator, and a prolific commentator on

security issues.

He was honoured with Padma Shri in 1989 for

his outstanding work as a civil servant.

Constantine Mitsotakis, Former Prime Minister

of Greece, Dies at 98

Constantine Mitsotakis, a former conservative prime

minister who engaged in fierce confrontations with

Greece’s liberal and socialist parties and tried to

political career, died on May 29. He was 98.

Mr. Mitsotakis was prime minister from 1990 to

1993.

He retired from active politics in 2004 but

remained honorary chairman of the center-right

New Democracy party.

Dasari Narayana Rao, filmmaker and former

minister, passes away

Noted director and former Union Minister, Dasari

Narayana Rao breathed his last at a corporate

hospital. He was 75.

Dasari Narayana Rao directed 151 movies and

produced a few more and has had the distinction

of working with stalwarts like N.T. Rama Rao.

He holds Limca World Record for directing the

most number of films.

Dasari was elected to the Rajya Sabha in the

year2006. He became the Minister of state in

Ministry of Coal.

Actor Reema Lagoo passes away

Veteran actor Reema Lagoo, known for her

performance in movies like Hum Aapke Hain Koun

and Kal Ho Na Ho, died due to a cardiac arrest. She

was 59.

Lagoo appeared in Marathi and Hindi films,

besides doing a number of TV shows.

Lagoo has worked in superhit films like Maine

Pyar Kiya, Saajan, Vaastav, Kuch Kuch Hota

Hai and, Hum Saath-Saath Hain among others,

while her popular television serials included Tu

Tu Main Main and Shrimaan Shrimati.

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Environment Minister Anil Dave passes away

Union environment minister

Anil Madhav Dave passed

away. He was 60.

Dave was sworn minister

with independent charge of

environment, forest and climate change last year.

He hailed from Madhya Pradesh and was a

member of Rajya Sabha.

Mathunny Mathews aka ‘Toyota’ Sunny passes

away

Mathunny Mathews popularly known as ‘Toyota’

Sunny, who was a pillar of the Indian expatriate

community in Kuwait for over half-a-century,

passed away at his residence in Qadisiya in Kuwait.

He was 81.

Mathews had played a key role in the safe

evacuation of 1.7 lakh Indian nationals from the

Emirate after Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces

invaded Kuwait in 1990.

He came to be known as ‘Toyota’ Sunny

following his life-long association with the

leading automobile dealer Al-Sayer Group.

Mathunny Mathews was the inspiration for

‘Airlift’, a Bollywood movie in which Akshay

Kumar depicted Ranjit Katyal.

Renowned Pakistani sitarist Ustad Raees Khan

passes away

Renowned Pakistani sitarist Ustad Raees Khan has

passed away. He was 77.

Born in Indore in Madhya Pradesh in 1939 into

a family of musicians, Khan collaborated with

legendary shehnai player Ustad Bismillah Khan

on stage.

He also played sitar for film music composers.

auno Koivisto, Finland's former president, dies at

93

Mauno Koivisto, Finland's first leftist president who

led it along the path to EU membership, died at the

age of 93.

He became the Nordic country's ninth president

in 1982 and spent two terms in the office until

1994.

He led his country through the collapse of the

neighboring Soviet Union and the ensuing

recession at home, and oversaw Finland's

application for membership of the European

Union in 1992. Finland joined the EU in 1995.

Former Puducherry Chief Minister Ramassamy

passes away

Former Puducherry Chief Minister S Ramassamy

died at his residence after a brief illness.He was 80.

He was Home Minister in the DMK-CPI

coalition ministry from 1969 to 1973.

He became Chief Minister in 1974 heading the

AIADMK-CPI coalition ministry for a brief

period.

He was also the Chief Minister in the AIADMK

government in 1977, which lasted in office for a

little over one year.

Sufi legend Begum Yaman passes away at 52

Famous sufi singer and daughter of legendary Sitar

Maestro (late) Ustad Vilayat Ali Khan, Begum

Yaman K. Khan of Etawah Gharana (Imdadkhani

gharana) has passed away after multiple organ

failure.

Begum Yaman used to sing all forms of Indian

semi-classical music and was probably the only

female singer in India of Sufi style of music in

its purest form.

She was the recipient of ‘Hasrat Amir Khusrao

Award’ by Urdu Press Club International.

World’s ‘oldest man’ dies at the age of 146

in Indonesia

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An Indonesian man who claimed to be the oldest

person alive, died at the age of 146 in his village in

the Seragaen district of Central Java.

Saparman Sodimejo, also known as Mbah

Ghoto, had an identity card which recorded the

date of his birth as December 31, 1870, which

was reportedly confirmed by the Indonesian

records office.

Leila Seth, first woman judge of Delhi High

Court, passes away

Justice Leila Seth, the first woman judge of Delhi

High Court, passed away after a brief illness at her

home in Uttar Pradesh's Noida. She was 86.

Seth, who broke many a glass ceiling in the legal

field, was the first woman to have topped the

London Bar exam, first woman judge of the

Delhi High Court and also the first woman chief

justice of a state high court (Himachal Pradesh).

The eminent jurist, the mother of "A Suitable

Boy" writer Vikram Seth, was herself an author

and her autobiography 'On Balance' was a

bestseller.

Mann ki Baat, now a book

Prime Minister Narendra

Modi's radio broadcast

programme Mann ki Baat

will be available in the

form of a book now.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has written

the preface for Mann Ki Baat - A Social

Revolution on Radio, which will be presented to

the President.

The book is authored by NetCore founder and

part time member of the Unique Identification

Authority of India (UIDAI) Rajesh Jain.

It is being released on May 26 at Rashtrapati

Bhawan with the first copy to be presented to

President Pranab Mukherjee.

Kiren Rijiju unveils world's first philosophical

novel on God

Young Indian IAS officer, Haulianlal Guite, who

hails from country's most remote areas of Manipur

state has recently published a book titled

"Confessions of a dying mind: the blind faith of

atheism" in New Delhi.

The book was unveiled by Union Minister Kiren

Rijiju in presence of David Syiemlieth,

Chairman, UPSC.

The book billed as "the world's first

philosophical novel for God", whose author is

arguably the first Indian civil servant to write on

philosophy since John Stuart Mill published On

Liberty way back in 1858.

President to receive book written by Uday

Mahurkar

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee will

receive the first copy of book ‘Marching with a

Billion- Analysing Narendra Modi’s Government at

Midterm’ from Smt. Sumitra Mahajan, Speaker Lok

Sabha.

The book ‘Marching with a Billion- Analysing

Narendra Modi’s Government at Midterm’

written by eminent journalist Shri Uday

Mahurkar analyses the monumental changes that

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has brought

on multiple fronts.

New Book on Virat Kohli's Winning Formula

Revealed by Abhirup Bhattacharya

A new book "Winning like Virat: Think & Succeed

like Kohli" by Abhirup Bhattacharya, unravels the

secrets of the Virat Kohli's consistent form, while

attempting to decode his philosophy towards life.

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In the book, the writer etches Virat's success

curve by using statistics that chart his

performances and anecdotes from his

predecessors and contemporaries in the game.

President receives first copies of two books

President of India Pranab Mukherjee has recently

received the first copies of two books – Color Atlas

of Oral implants and Conservative Dentistry –

Basics.

The color atlas – authored by Dr. Praful Bali and

Dr. Lanka Mahesh focuses on advanced

procedures performed by the authors in the field

of dental implantology.

The other book titled Conservative dentistry –

Basics, authored by Dr. Dildeep Bali and Dr.

Deepika Chandhok focuses on the basic

fundamentals of the subject.

Hero - A biography of Sachin Ramesh

Tendulkar: By Devendra Prabhudesai

Hero - A biography of Sachin

Ramesh Tendulkar has been

released recently. It is written by

sports journalist Devendra

Prabhudesai .

This book encloses the rich

history of Indian cricket

along with the enthralling story of a champion in

the making.

Book titled “India’s Indira: A Centennial

Tribute” launched

President Pranab Mukherjee has received the first

copy of book “India’s Indira: A Centennial Tribute”

in New Delhi.

Mukherjee has also written a chapter in the book,

which was released by vice-president M Hamid

Ansari.

Senior leader Anand Sharma has edited the

book.

Prez receives first copy of Prof Mukhpadhyay's

book

President Pranab Mukherjee has received the first

copy of a book, titled 'Metaphysics, Morals and

Politics', from its author Prof Amal Kumar

Mukhopadhyay.

The function was held at the Raj Bhavan, where

Prof Mukhopadhyay, former principal of the

then Presidency College, now Presidency

University, handed over the copy of his book to

the President.

PM releases 2 part book series on M.S.

Swaminathan

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has

released a two-part book series on the eminent

agricultural scientist Dr. M.S. Swaminathan.

The series is titled - M.S. Swaminathan: The

Quest for a world without hunger. Several Union

Ministers and other dignitaries were present on

the occasion.

Praising the dedication and commitment of Prof.

Swaminathan, the Prime Minister described him

as a “Kisan Vaigyanik” – Farmers’ Scientist;

rather than just a “Krishi Vaigyanik” –

Agricultural Scientist.

Union Home Minister releases the book ‘India

2017 Yearbook’

The Union Home

Minister, Shri

Rajnath Singh has

released the book

‘India 2017

Yearbook’

authored by the Union Home Secretary, Shri Rajiv

Mehrishi.

The CEO, NITI Aayog, Shri Amitabh Kant was

also present on the occasion.

The book was published by the Mc Graw Hill

Education India.

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Current Affairs Question 1. Which country has hosted Exhibition of Global Mobile

Internet Conference?

(A) USA

(B) China

(C) Mexico

(D) Malaysia

(E) None of these

2. International Workers' Day is observed on which date?

(A) 28-Apr

(B) 2-May

(C) 30-Apr

(D) 1-May

(E) None of these

3. Which Indian city is among top 20 tourist destinations in

Asia Pacific region?

(A) New Delhi

(B) Mumbai

(C) Chennai

(D) Both B and C

(E) None of these

4. Which is the most visited destination in Asia Pacific?

(A) Bangkok

(B) Singapore

(C) Goa

(D) Jakarta

(E) None of these

5. Ilir Meta has been elected as new President of which

country?

(A) Armenia

(B) Algeria

(C) Albania

(D) Tanzania

(E) None of these

6. Sudarsan Pattnaik has won the jury prize gold medal at the

10th Moscow Sand Art Championship. What was the

theme of the championship?

(A) World Around Us

(B) Go Green

(C) World After Us

(D) Green World

(E) None of these

7. Who will be awarded with this year’s Grand Cordon of the

Order of the Rising Sun?

(A) Ratan Tata

(B) Ashwani Kumar

(C) Manmohan Singh

(D) Anand Mahindra

(E) None of these

8. Who has become first Indian to win the Asian Squash title?

(A) Ashwini Ponappa

(B) Jwala Gutta

(C) Dipika Pallikal

(D) Joshna Chinappa

(E) None of these

9. What is the name of Nepal’s first female Supreme Court

chief justice, who has been suspended after an

impeachment motion was filed in parliament?

(A) Bidya Devi Bhandari

(B) Sushila Karki

(C) Aung San Suu Kyi

(D) Mira Rai

(E) None of these

10. Ganga Cleanliness Pledge Day is observed on which date?

(A) 29-Apr

(B) 2-May

(C) 30-Apr

(D) 1-May

(E) None of these

11. Which of the following day has been chosen to observe

Uttar Pradesh Diwas?

(A) 24-Jan

(B) 14-Jun

(C) 1-Nov

(D) 1-Dec

(E) None of these

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12. Under which scheme, India will give Rs 35 crore to

children of freedom fighters in Bangladesh in the next five

years?

(A) Deendayal Scholarship

(B) Bangbandhu Scholarship

(C) Maitri Scholarship

(D) Muktijodha scholarship

(E) None of these

13. In which city, Maharashtra government has recently

inaugurated an automatic weather station?

(A) Mumbai

(B) Thane

(C) Nagpur

(D) Aurangabad

(E) Pune

14. What is the full form of the term RERA, in context of real

estate sector?

(A) Real Estate Regulation and Development Authority

(B) Real Estate Regulation and Development Act

(C) Real Estate Regulation and Deployment Authority

(D) Real Estate Registration and Development Act

(E) None of these

15. Which of the following is true in context of Real Estate

Act?

(A) Real Estate Act was passed by the parliament in May

2016

(B) It falls under the Ministry of Urban Development

(C) An appeal can be made in the High court against the

builder within 90 days

(D) Builder and real estate agents are not bounded to

register their project with the authority

(E) None of these

16. Saparman Sodimejo, world’s oldest person passed away

recently. He was from which country?

(A) Japan

(B) Malaysia

(C) Indonesia

(D) South Korea

(E) None of these

17. Which scheme has been launched by HRD Ministry to

revive the patriotic feeling in youth?

(A) One IP Policy

(B) Vidya Veerta Abhiyan

(C) Soldiers for Nation

(D) Unite for Nation

(E) None of these

18. World Press Freedom Day is observed on which date?

(A) 29-Apr

(B) 2-May

(C) 30-Apr

(D) 3-May

(E) None of these

19. Recently, the United Nations is marking the first World

Tuna Day on 2 May 2017.Tuna belongs from which tribe

?

(A) Bodo

(B) Thunnini

(C) Pygmies

(D) Red Indians

(E) None of these

20. A new premier train service between Mumbai and Goa

will be started in June. What is the name of this train?

(A) Tejas Express

(B) Vivek Express

(C) Mumbai -Goa Express

(D) Konkan Express

(E) None of these

21. Recently, Mark Selby retains Snooker World Title, he

belongs to which country?

(A) Armenia

(B) Algeria

(C) England

(D) France

(E) USA

22. Which Scheme is launched by Haryana CM Manohar Lal

Khattar to reduce deaths due to road accidents?

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(A) Accident site at Zero

(B) Good traffic Awareness

(C) Haryana Vision Zero

(D) Shunya Durghatna

(E) None of these

23. Department of Telecom launched which portal in New

Delhion May 2, to clear the myths and misconceptions of

public on mobile towers and emissions from them ?

(A) Wave Transportation

(B) Communication Awareness

(C) Tarang Sanchar

(D) Communication Wave and Radiation

(E) None of These

24. What is the work of E- Nasika Defence Equipment

,developed by DRDO ?

(A) Detection of chemical agents well below toxic limits.

(B) Detect partially camouflaged optical elements.

(C) Detection of Water level in the Sea.

(D) Both A& B

(E) None of These

25. Which state has become the first to switch to the January-

December financial year from the existing April-March?

(A) Uttar Pradesh

(B) Madhya Pradesh

(C) Rajasthan

(D) Maharastra

(E) Karnatka

26. Which film is a historic biopic on the poignant life story

of the last king of Punjab - Maharajah Duleep Singh ?

(A) The Man who knew Infinity

(B) A NightMare Warrior

(C) The Black Prince

(D) The Lord of the Rings

(E) None of these

27. Who got the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit Sungnye

Medal of the Republic of Korea for his services rendered

as honorary consul general of South Korea?

(A) Rajive Kaul

(B) Madhukar Bhandarkar

(C) Raju Narayana Swamy

(D) Durga Shakti Nagpal

(E) Sanjiv Chaturvedi

28. Which Ministry has developed “e-guide (Audio-Visual)”

App for the tourists visiting National Museum ?

(A) Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation

(B) Ministry of Culture

(C) HRD Ministry

(D) Ministry of Science and Technology

(E) None of these

29. Cabinet approved SAMPADA Scheme. Consider the

following statement about this Scheme:-

1. It will be launched under the Ministry of Food

Processing Industries (MoFPI).

2. Objective of this scheme is to modernize processing

and decrease agri-waste.

3. It is an umbrella scheme like Mega Food Parks and

Value Addition Infrastructure etc.

Which of the above statement/ statements is/are correct?

(A) Only 1 & 2

(B) Only 2 & 3

(C) Only 1 & 3

(D) 1 , 2 & 3

(E) None of these

30. The succulent Banaganapalle mango has got GI

registration. What is the full form of GI?

(A) Geographical Indication

(B) Geological indication

(C) Google Indicator

(D) Geographical Induction

(E) None of these

31. Consider the following statements :

1. AIIB approved loan for a ‘24×7 Power for All’ project

in Andhra Pradesh.

2. India is the largest shareholder in AIIB.

3. Andhra Pradesh is one of the first states selected for

the roll out of the programme.

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Which of the above statement/statements is/are correct?

(A) Only 1 & 2

(B) Only 2 & 3

(C) Only 1 & 3

(D) 1 , 2 & 3

(E) None of these

32. Which of the following organisation /government has been

given more autonomy while dealing with NPA?

(A) SBI

(B) RBI

(C) Respective Bank

(D) Government of India

(E) State Government

33. Which has become the first city to get its own Microsoft

font?

(A) Dubai

(B) Montreal

(C) Mumbai

(D) Bengaluru

(E) Hamilton

34. Which of the following has been ranked cleanest city in

Swachh Bharat Survey 2017?

(A) Surat

(B) Mysore

(C) Visakhapatnam

(D) Indore

(E) Bhopal

35. Which of the following has been ranked dirtiest city in

Swachh Bharat Survey 2017?

(A) Katihar

(B) Gonda

(C) Hardoi

(D) Bhusawal

(E) None of these

36. Which of the following has been declared as International

Airport recently?

(A) Jodhpur Airport

(B) Vijaywada Airport

(C) Varanasi Airport

(D) Bikaner Airport

(E) None of these

37. Who is the chairman of the Committee to lay down

Technical Standards for the performance of core services?

(A) Nand Lal Sarda

(B) Pulak Ghosh

(C) VG Kannan

(D) RB Barman

(E) None of these

38. Who has been appointed as the new chairman of the Tea

Board of India?

(A) M S Boje Gowda

(B) Lokesh Tripathi

(C) Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah

(D) Gajendra Choudhary

(E) None of these

39. Who has been appointed as the new chairman of the

Coffee Board of India?

(A) M S Boje Gowda

(B) Lokesh Tripathi

(C) Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah

(D) Gajendra Choudhary

(E) None of these

40. Which of the following has been awarded with Avvaiyar

award by the Tamilnadu government?

(A) Padma Venkataraman

(B) R Swaminathan

(C) Krishna Venkatraghavan

(D) Yatindra Chandra

(E) None of these

41. Which of the following is the full form of the term GSLV?

(A) Geographic Satellite Launch Vehicle

(B) Geosynchronous Satellite Land Vehicle

(C) Geographical Satellite Launch Vehicle

(D) Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle

(E) None of these

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42. Which state has declared the river Narmada a living

entity?

(A) Uttar Pradesh

(B) Maharashtra

(C) Gujarat

(D) Madhya Pradesh

(E) None of these

43. Which city will host 13th International permaculture

conference?

(A) Hyderabad

(B) Ahmedabad

(C) New Delhi

(D) Bengaluru

(E) Bhopal

44. Which of the following state has been fully declared

'disturbed' area by the government recently?

(A) West Bengal

(B) Assam

(C) Jammu and Kashmir

(D) Meghalaya

(E) None of these

45. What is the full form of the term AFSPA ?

(A) Armed Forces Security Powers Acts

(B) Armed Forces special Powers Acts

(C) Armed Forces Social Powers Acts

(D) Armed Forces Special Progress Acts

(E) None of these

46. In which of the following state, ''cordon and combing''

operation was launched recently?

(A) Jammu and Kashmir

(B) Chhattisgarh

(C) Assam

(D) Manipur

(E) None of these

47. Which company is going to launch Express Wi-Fi in

India?

(A) Google

(B) Microsoft

(C) Twitter

(D) Facebook

(E) None of these

48. Which country has opened a small arms manufacturing

unit in Madhya Pradesh in a joint venture with India?

(A) France

(B) Russia

(C) Israel

(D) Philippines

(E) None of these

49. Who has been appointed as the new Managing director and

CEO of the Punjab National Bank?

(A) Dinabandhu Mohapatra

(B) Sunil Mehta

(C) R Subramania kumar

(D) Usha Ananthasubramanian

(E) None of these

50. Who has been appointed as the new Managing director and

CEO of the Allahabad Bank?

(A) Dinabandhu Mohapatra

(B) Sunil Mehta

(C) R Subramania kumar

(D) Usha Ananthasubramanian

(E) None of these

51. Which of the following has won France's presidential

election?

(A) Francois Hollande

(B) Nocolas Sarkozy

(C) Emmanuel Macron

(D) Le Pen

(E) None of these

52. India’s first bio refinery plant was inaugurated in which

city?

(A) Bhopal

(B) Pune

(C) Raipur

(D) Indore

(E) None of these

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53. Which state has decided to open canteens offering meals

at subsidised rates to registered construction workers

under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana?

(A) Andhra Pradesh

(B) Gujarat

(C) Punjab

(D) Haryana

(E) None of these

54. Which of the following village has been adopted by Union

Urban Development Minister Venkayya Naidu?

(A) Donja

(B) Titarvasa

(C) Jayapur

(D) Devpur

(E) None of these

55. Venkayya Naidu is a Rajya Sabha member from which

state?

(A) Rajasthan

(B) Andhra Pradesh

(C) Tamilnadu

(D) Karnataka

(E) None of these

56. Which state has tied up with World Health Organisation

(WHO) for eradication of Rubella measles?

(A) Gujarat

(B) Assam

(C) Madhya Pradesh

(D) Maharashtra

(E) None of these

57. Which of the following has won Asian Awards Fellowship

2017?

(A) Sachin Tendulkar

(B) Jack Ma

(C) Vishwanathan Anand

(D) Amitabh Bachchan

(E) None of these

58. Which of the following has won Asian Business leader of

the year?

(A) Masayoshi Son

(B) Nicha Dutt

(C) Harpal Kumar

(D) Ajay Banga

(E) None of these

59. Which team has won Azlan Shah Cup Hockey tournament

2017?

(A) Britain

(B) Australia

(C) Malaysia

(D) New Zealand

(E) None of these

60. Leila Seth passed away recently. She was the first woman

judge of _____ high court?

(A) Madras

(B) Kolkata

(C) Mumbai

(D) Delhi

(E) None of these

61. World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is observed on

which date?

(A) 5-May

(B) 6-May

(C) 7-May

(D) 8-May

(E) None of these

62. Who is the founder of International Committee of the Red

Cross?

(A) Henry Dunant

(B) Henry Becquerel

(C) Henry Ford

(D) Winston Churchill

(E) None of these

63. Which state has decided to launch boat ambulances?

(A) Andhra Pradesh

(B) Odisha

(C) Punjab

(D) Kerala

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(E) None of these

64. Which organisation has signed an agreement with

Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion to

establish Technology and Innovation Support Centers in

India?

(A) World Intellectual Property Organization

(B) World Trade Organization

(C) International Monetary Fund

(D) Amnesty International

(E) None of these

65. Who is going to be Pakistan's new envoy to India?

(A) Abdul Basit

(B) Sohail Mahmood

(C) Sajid Mahmood

(D) Nisar Khan

(E) None of these

66. Which of the following has won silver medal at the Asian

Boxing Championships?

(A) Shiv Thapa

(B) Manoj Kumar

(C) Vikas Gowda

(D) Yogeshwar Dutt

(E) None of these

67. Ustad Raees Khan passed away recently. Who he was?

(A) Guitar Player

(B) Sitar Player

(C) Tabla Player

(D) Flute Player

(E) None of these

68. For which of the following work, Rabindranath Tagore

received the Nobel Prize?

(A) Gora

(B) Jogajog

(C) Manasi

(D) Gitanjali

(E) None of these

69. Which country has started the military exercise Eager Lion

with US?

(A) Israel

(B) Jordan

(C) Philippines

(D) Thailand

(E) None of these

70. Which country has recently been elected to head UN-

Habitat?

(A) France

(B) Israel

(C) India

(D) Brazil

(E) None of these

71. According to IMF, what is India’s growth forecast for the

year 2018-19?

(A) 7.20%

(B) 7.70%

(C) 7.50%

(D) 7.10%

(E) None of these

72. According to UN Economic and Social Commission for

Asia and the Pacific, what is India’s growth forecast for

the year 2018?

(A) 7.20%

(B) 7.70%

(C) 7.50%

(D) 7.10%

(E) None of these

73. Which state has signed a Memorandum of Understanding

with Oracle to boost IT infrastructure?

(A) Jharkhand

(B) Gujarat

(C) Madhya Pradesh

(D) Assam

(E) None of these

74. Which of the following has won first ever ‘genderless’

award?

(A) Demy Moore

(B) Miley Cirus

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(C) Emma Watson

(D) Drew Barrymore

(E) None of these

75. National Basketball Association (NBA) has opened its

first academy in India in which city?

(A) Noida

(B) Mumbai

(C) Hyderabad

(D) Ahmedabad

(E) None of these

76. CS Karnan who was recently sentenced to 6 months in jail

by Supreme Court, was a judge in which high court?

(A) Madras

(B) Calcutta

(C) Bombay

(D) Rajasthan

(E) None of these

77. Which bank has been restricted by the Reserve Bank of

India from new hiring and opening branches?

(A) Allahabad Bank

(B) Dena Bank

(C) Corporation Bank

(D) IDBI Bank

(E) None of these

78. Which of the following is the the regulator of mutual funds

in India?

(A) SIDBI

(B) RBI

(C) SEBI

(D) EXIM Bank

(E) None of these

79. Who has been elected as the President of South Korea?

(A) Park Guyen Hye

(B) Moon Jae-in

(C) Hong Jun Pyo

(D) Ahn Cheol Soo

(E) None of these

80. Which film has won the best film award at the New York

Indian film festival?

(A) Mukti Bhawan

(B) Newton

(C) Dhanak

(D) Dangal

(E) None of these

81. Who is the leading wicket-taker in Women's One-Day

International cricket?

(A) Neetu David

(B) Anju Jain

(C) Karu Jain

(D) Jhulan Goswami

(E) None of these

82. Paperless filing of appeals in the Supreme Court will be

started from which date?

(A) 1-Jun-17

(B) 1-Jul-17

(C) 2-Aug-17

(D) 3-Jul-17

(E) None of these

83. Which solution has been proposed by the Union Home

Minister Rajnath Singh to counter Naxal violence?

(A) SAADHAN

(B) SAMRIDDHI

(C) SAMADHAN

(D) SAMARPAN

(E) None of these

84. Which of the following has set up an Investor Facilitation

Platform to provide information about stocks of public

sector units?

(A) Department of Heavy Industries

(B) Department of Investment and Public Asset

Management

(C) Investors relation and grievances Department

(D) Security and Exchange Board of India

(E) None of these

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85. Who will be the head of the task force to compute data on

employment?

(A) Arvind Panagariya

(B) T.C.A. Ananth

(C) Pulak Ghosh

(D) Manish Sabharwal

(E) None of these

86. Which country’s president has appointed Lee Nak-Yon as

Prime Minister?

(A) Spain

(B) South Korea

(C) Japan

(D) Myanmar

(E) None of these

87. Who will be India’s next Defence Secretary?

(A) G Mohan Kumar

(B) S Jayashankar

(C) Shaktikanth Das

(D) Sanjay Mitra

(E) None of these

88. Which of the following has won a bronze medal in Greco-

Roman 80 kg category at Asian Wrestling Championship?

(A) Sushil Kumar

(B) Harpreet Singh

(C) Yogeshwar Dutt

(D) Anuj Kumar

(E) None of these

89. Which city has topped in Savills Tech Cities Index?

(A) Austin

(B) Bengaluru

(C) New York

(D) Jakarta

(E) None of these

90. India has decided to replace the ______research station in

Antarctica with a new one in the next three to four years?

(A) Shikhar

(B) Maitri

(C) Mitra

(D) Sakha

(E) None of these

91. Which of the following has recently launched National

Contact Centre?

(A) Election Commission of India

(B) Union Home Ministry

(C) NITI Aayog

(D) Central Bureau of Investigation

(E) None of these

92. Which of the following has announced launch of new

home loan product ‘Griha Siddhi’?

(A) ICICI Housing

(B) SBI Housing

(C) Kotak Housing

(D) LIC Housing

(E) None of these

93. Who has been awarded with Woodrow Wilson Award

2017?

(A) Shikha Sharma

(B) Chanda Kochhar

(C) Indira Nooyi

(D) Arundhati Bhattacharya

(E) None of these

94. Who has been appointed as India’s Tribal Affairs

Secretary?

(A) Vishvanath Jajodia

(B) Anil Sinha

(C) Leena Nair

(D) Sanjay Mitra

(E) None of these

95. Which of the following internet-based interface was

launched recently to provide direct and effective solutions

to the problems faced by farmers and stakeholders in the

agriculture sector?

(A) e-Krishi Samvad

(B) e- Krishi Mitra

(C) e-Krishi

(D) e-Kisan Mitra

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(E) None of these

96. Which state is going to partner NITI Aayog for holistic

development?

(A) Madhya Pradesh

(B) Uttar Pradesh

(C) Punjab

(D) Maharashtra

(E) None of these

97. International Nurses Day is observed on which date?

(A) 9-May

(B) 12-May

(C) 10-May

(D) 11-May

(E) None of these

98. Which city has hosted 19th Session of India-Italy Joint

Commission for Economic Cooperation?

(A) New Delhi

(B) Rome

(C) Florence

(D) Hyderabad

(E) None of these

99. Indian Army has decided to re-introduce CASO military

campaign in Jammu and Kashmir. What is the full form of

the term CASO?

(A) Curb And Search Operations

(B) Curb After Search Operations

(C) Cordon And Sanction Operations

(D) Cordon And Search Operations

(E) None of these

100. Which is the new base year of wholesale price index (WPI)

and index of industrial production?

(A) 2011-12

(B) 2004-05

(C) 2014-15

(D) 2010-11

(E) None of these

101. Who has been appointed as WHO goodwill ambassador

for hepatitis?

(A) Shahrukh Khan

(B) Aamir Khan

(C) Amitabh Bachchan

(D) Sachin Tendulkar

(E) None of these

102. Who has been elected as the Chairman of FIFA

governance committee?

(A) RM Lodha

(B) Mukul Mudgal

(C) Miguel Maduro

(D) Vitaly Mutko

(E) None of these

103. Vinay Mohan Kwatra has been appointed as India’s

ambassador to which country?

(A) Russia

(B) France

(C) Japan

(D) Sweden

(E) None of these

104. Who has been appointed as the Chancellor of Jawaharlal

Nehru University?

(A) VK Saraswat

(B) Vivek Debroy

(C) K Kasturirangan

(D) AK Baidya

(E) None of these

105. Which country has organised One Belt, One Road

(OBOR) summit recently?

(A) Russia

(B) China

(C) Pakistan

(D) France

(E) None of these

106. Which city has recently adopted India’s UJALA scheme

for affordable lighting?

(A) Russia

(B) Myanmar

(C) Portugal

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(D) UK

(E) None of these

107. Which state has formed ‘Maa’ committee to keep an eye

on mid-day meals served to students?

(A) Madhya Pradesh

(B) Uttar Pradesh

(C) Himachal Pradesh

(D) Uttarakhand

(E) None of these

108. India's first electric radio cabs will be launched in which

city?

(A) Varanasi

(B) Kanpur

(C) Mumbai

(D) Nagpur

(E) None of these

109. Which state has announced 'No school bag' on Saturdays?

(A) Uttar Pradesh

(B) Rajasthan

(C) Punjab

(D) Gujarat

(E) None of these

110. The Revenue Department has exempted residents of three

states from mandatory quoting of Aadhaar to obtain PAN

cards and file tax returns. Which of the following is not

one of them?

(A) Jammu & Kashmir

(B) Tripura

(C) Meghalaya

(D) Assam

(E) None of these

111. Which Indian product will sponsor New Zealand cricket

team for Champions trophy?

(A) Star

(B) Dabur

(C) Amul

(D) Sony

(E) None of these

112. Who has been appointed as chairman of South Asian

Federation of Exchanges?

(A) Ashish Kumar Chauhan

(B) Devendra Singh Chouhan

(C) Gourav Chandra Yadav

(D) Brij Bhushan Singh

(E) None of these

113. What is Wanna Crypt?

(A) A computer operating system

(B) A Ransomware

(C) A computer storage unit

(D) A programming language

(E) None of these

114. What is India’s rank in World Bank’s electricity

accessibility list 2017?

(A) 73

(B) 99

(C) 26

(D) 55

(E) None of these

115. Which state has topped 2017 public affairs index (PAI) in

governance in States?

(A) Madhya Pradesh

(B) Kerala

(C) Tamilnadu

(D) Gujarat

(E) None of these

116. Which state is last in 2017 public affairs index (PAI) in

governance in States?

(A) Rajasthan

(B) Jharkhand

(C) Assam

(D) Bihar

(E) None of these

117. Asia’s longest bridge Dhola-Sadiya bridge which is to be

inaugurated on 26 May, is in which state?

(A) Meghalaya

(B) Karnataka

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(C) Assam

(D) West Bengal

(E) None of these

118. Which Indian institute has collaborated with British

Geological Survey to turn Varanasi into smart city?

(A) IIT Bombay

(B) IIT Delhi

(C) IIT Madras

(D) IIT Kharagpur

(E) None of these

119. Who is the first Indian to win a GP3 race?

(A) Narain Karthikeyan

(B) Anil Sinha

(C) Arjun Maini

(D) Arun Mishra

(E) None of these

120. Who has won Madrid Open tennis tournament 2017?

(A) Dominic Thiem

(A) Andy Murray

(B) Roger Federer

(C) Rafael Nadal

(D) None of these

121. Which airport has become world’s busiest single-runway

airport?

(A) Mumbai

(B) Hyderabad

(C) Gatwick

(D) New York

(E) None of these

122. Which city has hosted second meeting of National

Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction?

(A) Mumbai

(B) Hyderabad

(C) Ahmedabad

(D) New Delhi

(E) None of these

123. Which bank has signed a distribution tie-up with HDFC

Life?

(A) Catholic Syrian Bank

(B) Karnataka Bank

(C) Kotak Mahindra Bank

(D) Yes Bank

(E) None of these

124. Which country has appointed Edouard Philippe as its

prime minister?

(A) Peru

(B) France

(C) Libya

(D) Mexico

(E) None of these

125. Which bank is going to appoint Debjani Ghosh as

independent director?

(A) Axis Bank

(B) HDFC Bank

(C) Yes Bank

(D) ICICI Bank

(E) None of these

126. Which of the following has been appointed as the deputy

executive secretary of the United Nations Framework

Convention on Climate Change?

(A) Ovais Sarmad

(B) Aasif Mohammad

(C) Junaid Ahmed

(D) Arvind Kumar

(E) None of these

127. Who has been conferred with the first Bhairon Singh

Shekhawat Lifetime Achievement Honour?

(A) N Chandrababu Naidu

(B) Mamta Benerjee

(C) Pawan Kumar Chamling

(D) Manohar Lal Khattar

(E) None of these

128. Which country is hosting G20 Labour & Employment

Ministers’ Meet 2017?

(A) Germany

(B) Italy

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(C) Australia

(D) Canada

(E) None of these

129. According to UK accountancy firm EY, which is the most

attractive renewable energy investment destination?

(A) India

(B) US

(C) China

(D) Japan

(E) None of these

130. Mahmoud Abbas is on a visit to India these days. Which

country’s president he is?

(A) Israel

(B) Malaysia

(C) Norway

(D) Palestine

(E) None of these

131. Union Chemicals and Fertilizers ministers Anant Kumar

has recently announced to set up a plastic park at which

place?

(A) Rohtak

(B) Gurugram

(C) Rewari

(D) Panipat

(E) None of these

132. Who has topped Forbes 2017 list of Global Game

Changers?

(A) Mukesh Ambani

(B) Warren Buffet

(C) Bill Gates

(D) Mark Zuckerberg

(E) None of these

133. What is the new EPFO claim settlement period?

(A) 15 Days

(B) 10 Days

(C) 30 Days

(D) 7 Days

(E) None of these

134. Who has been appointed as the new CEO of Paytm

Payments Bank?

(A) Punit Bansal

(B) Sourabh Arora

(C) Renu Satti

(D) Kunal Bakshi

(E) None of these

135. Which country has topped World Health Organisation's

latest world health check?

(A) Germany

(B) Australia

(C) Japan

(D) Singapore

(E) None of these

136. Under the A1 category of railway stations, which is the

cleanest railway station in India?

(A) Visakhapatnam

(B) Beas

(C) Secunderabad

(D) Jammu Tawi

(E) None of these

137. In which state, Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs

has approved the setting up of Indian Agricultural

Research Institute?

(A) Assam

(B) Meghalaya

(C) Manipur

(D) Tripura

(E) None of these

138. Which city has hosted 15th National Meeting of State

Commissioners for Persons with Disabilities?

(A) Bengaluru

(B) New Delhi

(C) Hyderabad

(D) Visakhapatnam

(E) None of these

139. Which new coal allocation policy has been approved by

cabinet for power sector recently?

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(A) POWER 2017

(B) URJA 2017

(C) BIJALI 2017

(D) SHAKTI 2017

(E) None of these

140. In which city, India’s first ornamental fish park will be set

up?

(A) Hyderabad

(B) Chennai

(C) Raipur

(D) Ahmedabad

(E) None of these

141. Which country’s firms has been roped in to develop start-

up area in Amaravati?

(A) Japan

(B) Singapore

(C) China

(D) Germany

(E) None of these

142. Reema Lagoo passed away recently. Who she was?

(A) Singer

(B) Writer

(C) Actor

(D) Politician

(E) None of these

143. What is India’s rank in Lancet Global Burden of Disease

study?

(A) 154

(B) 73

(C) 82

(D) 136

(E) None of these

144. SIMBEX is a Naval Exercise between the Navies of India

and____?

(A) Sri Lanka

(B) Singapore

(C) South Africa

(D) South Korea

(E) None of these

145. Which country has supplied M777 howitzers to India?

(A) France

(B) Russia

(C) Israel

(D) US

(E) None of these

146. The Reserve Bank of India has mandated that _____ per

cent of the total number of 'banking outlets' opened during

a financial year should be located in unbanked rural

centres.

(A) 10

(B) 15

(C) 20

(D) 25

(E) None of these

147. According to Brand Finance’s annual study , Which is the

most valuable brand in India?

(A) Tata

(B) Airtel

(C) HDFC

(D) Reliance

(E) None of these

148. Which among the following has been given additional

charge of the Environment Ministry?

(A) Rajnath Singh

(B) Harshvardhan

(C) Piyush Goyal

(D) JP Nadda

(E) Radha Mohan Singh

149. Which of the following has won Dan David Prize 2017?

(A) Shrinivas Kulkarni

(B) Sanjay Gubbi

(C) Purnima Barman

(D) Rajendra Singh

(E) None of these

150. Who is the author of the book titled 'Metaphysics, Morals

and Politics?

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(A) Kamal Kumar Upadhyay

(B) Arjun Kumar Bandhopadhyay

(C) Jagat Kumar Chattopadhyay

(D) Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay

(E) None of these

151. As per the latest UNWTO Barometer for March 2017,

What is India’s rank in International Tourist Arrivals in

2015?

(A) 40

(B) 12

(C) 24

(D) 16

(E) None of these

152. Azraq, which has become the first refugee camp in the

world to be powered by renewable energy, is in which

country?

(A) Syria

(B) Jordan

(C) Turkey

(D) Russia

(E) None of these

153. International Museum Day is observed on which date?

(A) 16-May

(B) 19-May

(C) 20-May

(D) 18-May

(E) None of these

154. Which city will host 2017 annual meeting of African

Development Bank?

(A) Gandhinagar

(B) Hyderabad

(C) New Delhi

(D) Kolkata

(E) None of these

155. Who is the present Director General of the Defence

Research and Development Organisation?

(A) Sanjeev Reddy

(B) AS Kiran Kumar

(C) S Christopher

(D) Minakshi Sen

(E) None of these

156. Who has won 'CEO of the Year' award at the prestigious

Platts Global Metals Awards?

(A) Prakash Hinduja

(B) Laxmi Mittal

(C) Sanjeev Gupta

(D) Ashok Hinduja

(E) None of these

157. On which of the following, Prime Minister Narendra Modi

has released a two-part book series recently?

(A) Abdul Kalam

(B) MS Swaminathan

(C) Mahatma Gandhi

(D) Atal Bihari Bajpayee

(E) None of these

158. In whose memory, National Anti Terrorism Day is

observed?

(A) Rajiv Gandhi

(B) Indira Gandhi

(C) Jawahar Lal Nehru

(D) MK Gandhi

(E) None of these

159. Which is the first first private airline to get UDAN licence?

(A) Quick Jet Cargo

(B) Club One Air

(C) Fly Easy

(D) Turbo Megha Airways

(E) None of these

160. Which country will host host the 2017 Arctic Energy

Summit?

(A) Norway

(B) Finland

(C) Sweden

(D) Denmark

(E) None of these

161. Which city is hosting Jaipur Literature Festival 2017?

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(A) New York

(B) Colombo

(C) London

(D) Port Louis

(E) None of these

162. Which of the following will be honored with prestigious

UN medal for the courage and sacrifice in the line of duty?

(A) Brijesh Thapa

(B) Ram Kumar

(C) Ravi Kumar

(D) Both A and B

(E) Both A and C

163. Recently, NASA has named new species after which

Indian scientist?

(A) CV Raman

(B) JC Basu

(C) APJ Abdul Kalam

(D) HJ Bhabha

(E) None of these

164. Which of the following has won intel science award 2017

in US?

(A) Aakash Sharma

(B) Prashant Ranganathan

(C) Rakesh Natrajan

(D) Shankar Ranganathan

(E) None of these

165. World Metrology Day is observed on which date?

(A) 19-May

(B) 22-May

(C) 20-May

(D) 21-May

(E) None of these

166. Which Airport has established solar farms to reduce

carbon emission by 3125 tonnes per annum?

(A) Hyderabad

(B) New Delhi

(C) Mumbai

(D) Bengaluru

(E) None of these

167. Which is the first bank in India to adopt a new open

architecture model with three life insurers on a single

platform?

(A) DBS Bank

(B) DCB Bank

(C) RBL Bank

(D) Indusind Bank

(E) None of these

168. Which of the following has received TM Forum's 'Digital

Service Innovator of the Year Award' 2017?

(A) Airtel

(B) Vodafone

(C) Reliance Jio

(D) Aircel

(E) None of these

169. Which of the following has won Asia yoga championship

held in Thailand?

(A) Vaishnavi

(B) Mansi

(C) Kritika

(D) Yogeshwari

(E) None of these

170. Which of the following team has won Indian Premier

League season 10?

(A) Sunrisers Hyderabad

(B) Rising Pune Supergiant

(C) Kolkata Knight Riders

(D) Mumbai Indians

(E) None of these

171. Which of the following has won Italian Open men’s title?

(A) David Ferer

(B) Novak Djokovic

(C) Rafael Nadal

(D) Alexander Zverev

(E) None of these

172. Which of the following has won Orange cap in Indian

Premier League Season 10?

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(A) Bhuvneshwar Kumar

(B) Ben Stokes

(C) David Warner

(D) Steve Smith

(E) None of these

173. According to a new report by a UN monitoring centre,

which country has registered highest number of internal

displacements due to conflict, violence and disasters in

2016?

(A) Syria

(B) China

(C) Philippines

(D) Indonesia

(E) None of these

174. What is India’s rank in UN monitoring centre’s internal

displacements report 2016?

(A) 2

(B) 3

(C) 4

(D) 5

(E) None of these

175. Who is the first Indian woman to reach the top of Mount

Everest for the five times?

(A) Reema Kumari

(B) Malavath Purna

(C) Santosh Yadav

(D) Anshu Jamsenpa

(E) None of these

176. Which bank has launched trading platform “Selfie”?

(A) Yes Bank

(B) Federal Bank

(C) Axis Bank

(D) Karnataka Bank

(E) None of these

177. Which of the following has launched India’s first life

insurance email robot?

(A) Bajaj Allianz

(B) ICICI Prudential

(C) HDFC Life

(D) Max Life

(E) None of these

178. Which of the following has recently won UK humanitarian

award?

(A) Jacqueline Fernandez

(B) Katrina Kaif

(C) Anushka Sharma

(D) Priyanka Chopra

(E) None of these

179. Which of the following port has recently won two best

performance awards from Ministry of Shipping?

(A) Kandla Port

(B) Cochin Port

(C) Jawahar Lal Nehru Port

(D) Vizag Port

(E) None of these

180. Who is the author of the India 2017 Yearbook?

(A) S Jayashankar

(B) Shaktikant Das

(C) Rajiv Mehrishi

(D) Arvind Subramaniam

(E) Arvind Pangariya

181. Which country has been surpassed by India to become

world’s second largest steel producer?

(A) Japan

(B) China

(C) US

(D) Australia

(E) None of these

182. Which of the following is not a founding member of the

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

(OPEC)?

(A) Iran

(B) Iraq

(C) Nigeria

(D) Saudi Arabia

(E) Venezuela

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183. Australia has recently returned three stone sculptures to

India. Which of the following is not one of them?

(A) Seated Buddha

(B) Worshippers of Buddha

(C) Goddess Pratyangira

(D) Parrot Lady

(E) Both A and B

184. What is the full form of the SEVA app, developed by Coal

India Limited for power sector consumers?

(A) Saral Eindhan Vitaran Application

(B) Swachh Eindhan Vitaran Application

(C) Saral Ethanol Vitaran Application

(D) Saral Eindhan Vitaran Adhikar

(E) None of these

185. Which country has signed a deal worth $630 million with

India to provide India's navy with missile defence

systems?

(A) Israel

(B) France

(C) Russia

(D) Japan

(E) None of these

186. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been elected new

Director-General of____?

(A) World Trade Organisation

(B) International Monetary Fund

(C) World Health organisation

(D) International Maritime Organisation

(E) None of these

187. Roger Moore passed away recently. Who he was?

(A) Journalist

(B) Singer

(C) Actor

(D) Writer

(E) None of these

188. Foreign Investment Promotion Board which was

abolished recently, was working under which department?

(A) DIPAM

(B) DIPP

(C) Department of foreign affairs

(D) Department of economic affairs

(E) None of these

189. “Adopt A Slum” campaign has been launched in which

state/UT?

(A) Puducherry

(B) Delhi

(C) Lakshadweep

(D) Maharashtra

(E) None of these

190. Which state has launched 'Good Morning' squads to

monitor and prevent open defecation?

(A) Madhya Pradesh

(B) Maharashtra

(C) Uttar Pradesh

(D) Gujarat

(E) None of these

191. Which telecom company has launched satellite phone

service ?

(A) BSNL

(B) Airtel

(C) Reliance

(D) Vodafone

(E) None of these

192. Which Indian badminton player has been selected in

Badminton World Federation athlete commission?

(A) Saina Nehwal

(B) Jwala Gutta

(C) Joshana Chinappa

(D) PV Sindhu

(E) None of these

193. Which team has won ice hockey world title 2017?

(A) Sweden

(B) Canada

(C) New Zealand

(D) Spain

(E) None of these

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194. Who is the author of the book titled ‘Mann Ki Baat - A

Social Revolution on Radio’?

(A) Narendra Modi

(B) Nandan Nilkeni

(C) Rajesh Jain

(D) Rakesh Khatri

(E) None of these

195. Who has has written the preface for the book ‘Mann Ki

Baat - A Social Revolution on Radio’?

(A) Xi Jinping

(B) Malcolm Turnbull

(C) Shinzo Abe

(D) Barack Obama

(E) None of these

196. Which Indian monument, has made it to the top 10

landmarks in the world?

(A) Red Fort

(B) Jantar Mantar

(C) Tajmahal

(D) Qutub Minar

(E) None of these

197. In 2016, UK has issued maximum work visas to which

country?

(A) China

(B) India

(C) Australia

(D) US

(E) None of these

198. Which of the following has signed a MoU with Madhya

Pradesh government to collaborate on the development of

a Happiness Index?

(A) IIT Bombay

(B) IIT Guwahati

(C) IIT Kharagpur

(D) IIT Madras

(E) None of these

199. Which bank has launched national hackathon 'Code For

Bank'?

(A) State Bank of India

(B) Punjab National Bank

(C) Bank of Baroda

(D) Canara Bank

(E) None of these

200. Which country is the world’s number one foreign direct

investment recipient?

(A) US

(B) UK

(C) India

(D) China

(E) None of these

201. Which is the only Indian company among top 10 consumer

financial services companies globally?

(A) HDFC

(B) ITC

(C) SBI

(D) TCS

(E) None of these

202. Who is the author of the book titled ‘Marching with a

Billion- Analysing Narendra Modi’s Government at

Midterm’?

(A) Uday Mahurkar

(B) Abhirup Bhattacharya

(C) Rajesh Jain

(D) Rakesh Khatri

(E) None of these

203. Which country has hosted G-7 Summit 2017?

(A) Germany

(B) Italy

(C) Belgium

(D) Canada

(E) None of these

204. Which country is engaged in Humanitarian Assistance and

Disaster Relief (HADR) Table Top Exercise Siam Bharat

2017 with India?

(A) Sri Lanka

(B) Singapore

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(C) Russia

(D) Thailand

(E) None of these

205. Which country has hosted NATO Summit 2017?

(A) Germany

(B) Italy

(C) Belgium

(D) Canada

(E) None of these

206. On which river, Dhola-Sadiya bridge has been built?

(A) Kameng

(B) Lohit

(C) Manas

(D) Dibang

(E) None of these

207. Who will be the next Economic Affairs Secretary of India?

(A) Jayant Sinha

(B) Shaktikant Das

(C) Tapan Ray

(D) Arivind Mayaram

(E) None of these

208. Who has been appointed Chairman of the National

Commission for Minorities?

(A) Syed Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi

(B) Mohammad Iftikhar Sadiq

(C) Shajia Hasan Rizvi

(D) Khalid Siddiqui

(E) None of these

209. Former Director General of _______ police Kanwar Pal

Singh Gill has passed away recently?

(A) Gujarat

(B) Chhattisgarh

(C) Haryana

(D) Punjab

(E) None of these

210. In which southeast Asian Country, Apple has opened its

first official store?

(A) Indonesia

(B) Malaysia

(C) Singapore

(D) Vietnam

(E) None of these

211. Recently who has become most followed world leader on

Facebook?

(A) Donald Trump

(B) Vladimir Putin

(C) Hasan Rouhani

(D) Narendra Modi

(E) None of these

212. To which country, India has recently announced a

financial assistance of 500 million Dollar?

(A) Vietnam

(B) Philippines

(C) Israel

(D) Mauritius

(E) None of these

213. Which country is constructing world's largest telescope?

(A) France

(B) Turkey

(C) Chile

(D) Belgium

(E) None of these

214. Which of the following will be the objective of the

financial literacy week to be observed by RBI during June

5 to 9?

(A) Know York Customer

(B) Exercising Credit Discipline

(C) Grievance Redressal

(D) Going Digital

(E) All of the Above

215. Which of the following has become India's most profitable

public sector undertaking?

(A) Indian Oil Corp.

(B) Bharat Petroleum Corp.

(C) ONGC

(D) BHEL

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(E) BEL

216. Which is the India's most profitable company?

(A) TCS

(B) RIL

(C) BHEL

(D) ONGC

(E) None of these

217. International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers is

observed on which date?

(A) 26-May

(B) 27-May

(C) 28-May

(D) 29-May

(E) None of these

218. Which country has hosted global disaster risk reduction

summit 2017?

(A) Fiji

(B) Mexico

(C) Canada

(D) France

(E) None of these

219. India's first case of the Zika virus was found in which city?

(A) Ahmedabad

(B) Hyderabad

(C) Kolkata

(D) New Delhi

(E) None of these

220. Which state has recently announced pension scheme for

journalists?

(A) Haryana

(B) Gujarat

(C) Maharashtra

(D) Andhra Pradesh

(E) None of these

221. Which state has declared Dailong village Biodiversity

Heritage Site?

(A) Tripura

(B) Meghalaya

(C) Manipur

(D) Assam

(E) None of these

222. In which state, Defence Minister Arun Jaitely has

inaugurated an Aeronautical Test range?

(A) Tamilnadu

(B) Odisha

(C) West Bengal

(D) Karnataka

(E) None of these

223. Who has won 70th Anniversary prize in the Cannes film

festival 2017?

(A) Jessica Alba

(B) Nicole Kidman

(C) Meryl Streep

(D) Angelina Jolly

(E) None of these

224. Which city’s police has won smart policing award 2017?

(A) Mumbai

(B) Hyderabad

(C) Pune

(D) Ahmedabad

(E) None of these

225. Which country was eliminated from G-8 group in 2014 to

make it G-7?

(A) US

(B) UK

(C) Russia

(D) Italy

(E) None of these

226. Which city has hosted 5th India Morocco Joint

Commission Meeting?

(A) New Delhi

(B) Rabat

(C) Marrakesh

(D) Mumbai

(E) None of these

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227. Which campaign has been launched by Ministry of

Drinking Water and Sanitation for promotion of toilet

usage?

(A) Swachh Shoch

(B) Darwaja Band

(C) Swachh Toilet

(D) Swachh Darwaja

(E) None of these

228. According to the World Bank, what will be India’s GDP

growth in fiscal year 2017-18?

(A) 7.20%

(B) 7.10%

(C) 7.30%

(D) 7.60%

(E) None of these

229. Who has been appointed first woman chancellor of Jamia

Millia Islamia?

(A) Najma Heptulla

(B) Medha Patkar

(C) Mridula Sinha

(D) Girija Vyas

(E) None of these

230. Who has won European Golden Shoe 2017?

(A) Wayne Rooney

(B) Neymar

(C) Christiano Ronaldo

(D) Lionel Messi

(E) None of these

231. Which of the following will be awarded with Dada Saheb

Phalke Academy 'International Acclaimed Actress

Award'?

(A) Katrina Kaif

(B) Deepika Padukone

(C) Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

(D) Priyanka Chopra

(E) None of these

232. Who is the author of the book titled ‘Color Atlas of Oral

implants’?

(A) Dr. Praful Bali

(B) Dr. Lanka Mahesh

(C) Dr. Dildeep Bali

(D) Dr. Deepika Chandhok

(E) Both A and B

233. Which country has recently launched an all women TV

channel?

(A) Iran

(B) UAE

(C) Afghanistan

(D) Bangladesh

(E) None of these

234. What is India’s rank in female participation in the

workforce according to World Bank?

(A) 131

(B) 120

(C) 125

(D) 102

(E) None of these

235. Which is going to be the first country to run all government

ports on green energy?

(A) China

(B) Singapore

(C) India

(D) South Korea

(E) None of these

236. Which country has become third largest aviation market in

the world?

(A) India

(B) France

(C) China

(D) Japan

(E) None of these

237. Which state/UT police has launched Bicycle Patrol?

(A) Manipur

(B) Puducherry

(C) Goa

(D) Delhi

(E) None of these

238. Notes of rupees 1 denomination bears the signature of____

(A) Finance Minister

(B) Economic Affairs Secretary

(C) RBI Governor

(D) Prime Minister

(E) None of these

239. Who is the head of Banks Board Bureau?

(A) Vinod Rai

(B) HM Sinor

(C) Shaktikanth Das

(D) YV Reddy

(E) None of these

240. Which of the following has been awarded with World No-

Tobacco Day Award by WHO?

(A) JP Nadda

(B) Venkiah Naidu

(C) Narendra Modi

(D) Dr Harshvardhan

(E) None of these

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1. B 2. D 3. D 4. A 5. C 6. A 7. B 8. D 9. B 10. B

11. A 12. D 13. C 14. B 15. E 16. C 17. B 18. D 19. B 20. A

21. C 22. C 23. C 24. A 25. B 26. C 27. A 28. B 29. D 30. A

31. C 32. B 33. A 34. D 35. B 36. B 37. D 38. C 39. A 40. A

41. D 42. D 43. A 44. B 45. B 46. A 47. D 48. C 49. B 50. D

51. C 52. B 53. D 54. B 55. A 56. D 57. A 58. D 59. A 60. D

61. D 62. A 63. B 64. A 65. B 66. A 67. B 68. D 69. B 70. C

71. B 72. C 73. A 74. C 75. A 76. B 77. D 78. C 79. B 80. A

81. D 82. D 83. C 84. B 85. A 86. B 87. D 88. B 89. A 90. B

91. A 92. D 93. B 94. C 95. A 96. B 97. B 98. B 99. D 100. A

101. C 102. B 103. B 104. A 105. B 106. D 107. B 108. D 109. A 110. B

111. C 112. A 113. B 114. C 115. B 116. D 117. C 118. D 119. C 120. D

121. A 122. D 123. A 124. B 125. C 126. A 127. C 128. A 129. C 130. D

131. D 132. A 133. B 134. C 135. C 136. A 137. A 138. B 139. D 140. B

141. B 142. C 143. A 144. B 145. D 146. D 147. A 148. B 149. A 150. D

151. C 152. B 153. D 154. A 155. C 156. C 157. B 158. A 159. D 160. B

161. C 162. E 163. C 164. B 165. C 166. D 167. A 168. C 169. A 170. D

171. D 172. C 173. B 174. B 175. D 176. B 177. C 178. A 179. B 180. C

181. A 182. C 183. D 184. A 185. A 186. C 187. C 188. D 189. B 190. B

191. A 192. D 193. A 194. C 195. C 196. C 197. B 198. C 199. A 200. C

201. A 202. A 203. B 204. D 205. C 206. B 207. C 208. A 209. D 210. C

211. D 212. D 213. C 214. E 215. A 216. B 217. D 218. B 219. A 220. A

221. C 222. D 223. B 224. C 225. C 226. B 227. B 228. A 229. A 230. D

231. D 232. E 233. C 234. B 235. C 236. A 237. D 238. B 239. A 240. A