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1. The Sikkim Kranti Kari Morcha (SKM) leader

Prem Singh Tamang, better known as PS
Golay is the new Chief Minister of Sikkim.

He succeeds Pawan Kumar Chamling who

holds the record of the longest serving CM of
India.

2. Indian Army’s Lieutenant General Shailesh

Tinaikar was as appointed the new force commander of UN Mission in
South Sudan (UNMISS).

3. Justice Aniruddha Bose, Justice Surya Kant, Justice A S Bopanna

and Justice BR Gavai have newly been appointed as the judges in the
Supreme Court.

Now, the top court has reached its full sanctioned strength of 31.

4. YSR Congress Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy would be sworn in as the next
chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.

5. Pema Khandu would be the next Chief Minister of Arunachal

Pradesh.

6. Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader Naveen Patnaik takes oath as CM of Odisha
for a record 5th consecutive term.

7. Admiral Karambir Singh assumes charge as the new Chief of Indian

Navy. He is the 24th Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS).

8. Scott Morrison from Liberal Party has sworn in as 30th Prime

Minister of Australia.

9. A tribal woman from Odisha, Chandrani Murmu aged 25 of Biju

Janata Dal (BJD) party became the youngest MP in the country after
the recent general election results.

1. According to a United Nations’ report

titled World Economic Situation and
Prospects (WESP) Report 2019 Mid-year
Update, India’s economy is projected to
grow at 7.1 % in the fiscal year 2020.

2. The RBI has constituted a six-member

committee under Harsh Vardhan, to review
the existing state of mortgage securitization in India and suggest
measures to develop the market further.

3. India's economy will grow at 7.5% by 2020 buoyed by rural

consumption and subdued inflation, as per Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD) (Headquarter: Paris)

4. ICICI Bank bought a 9.9% stake in India International Exchange

(INX), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) for
nearly Rs. 31 crores.

5. Corporation Bank launched ‘Corp SME Suvidha’, a product for GST-

registered MSMEs as part of the bank’s efforts to provide the best products
to the MSME sector.

6. RBI  extended the time-window for using the Real Time Gross
Settlement System (RTGS) for customer transactions from 4:30 pm to
6 pm (i.e. 8 am to 6 pm) on all working days.

It will be effective from June 1, 2019.

7. RBI has recently constituted a six-member task force headed by

T.N. Manoharan on the development of the secondary market for
corporate loans so that banks get another alternative apart from AMC
(Asset Management Companies) and can offload their stressed assets and
those get traded.

8. RBI recently fixed the investment limit at Rs 54,606.55 crores for

foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) under the voluntary retention route
(VRR), which allows to park funds in both government securities as well as
corporate debt.

9. Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) has launched a mobile van facility

named “Bank on Wheels” in 14 districts of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and the
Vijayawada region of Andhra Pradesh to provide door-step banking facility,
especially for senior citizens.
1. According to a recent report “Women in
Business and Management: The business case
for change” released by International Labour
Organization (ILO), companies that improve
gender diversity perform better and rake
in higher profits.

2. FICCI’s (Federation of Indian Chambers of

Commerce and Industry) economic outlook
survey has projected India’s GDP growth rate to be 7.1% for FY20
and 7.2% for FY21.

3. Facebook plans to launch its own cryptocurrency “Global Coin” in

2020.

4. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed an agreement worth

$750 million to electrify railway tracks in India under Railways
Track Electrification Project in India.

5. SBI has announced a strategic partnership with the FMCG arm of

The Art of Living — Sri Sri Tattva. Under this partnership, YONO
users can avail a discount of 15 percent on the entire range of
products offered by Sri Sri Tattva.

6. Bharti AXA Life Insurance, a private life insurer, has been conferred
with the FICCI Claims Excellence Award. The recognition comes for its
customer-friendly claims services in the life insurance sector.

7. Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has toppled state-owned Indian Oil

Corporation (IOC) to become the country’s biggest company by
revenue. 

8. Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company (AMC) become the first

Indian fund house to launch WhatsApp transaction platform for
mutual fund transactions for new as well as existing investors.

9. Sri Lanka, India and Japan have signed a Memorandum of

Cooperation (MoC) to jointly develop the East Container Terminal
(ECT) at the Colombo Port in Sri Lanka.

10. A rating agency India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) estimated

India GDP Growth at 6.9% in FY19.
 1. Under ‘Tandrust Punjab Mission’ the
state government has asked the online
food delivery platforms to conduct an audit
of restaurants and food joints to check on their
cleanliness and hygiene and provide a
hygiene rating.

2. Union Environment Ministry has

launched the song “Hawa Aane De” to spread awareness about Air
pollution.

1. Professor Balram Bhargava, Director

General of Indian Council of Medical Research
(ICMR) jointly won the 2019 Dr. Lee Jong-
wook Memorial Prize for Public Health at
the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva,
Switzerland.

2. Former Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran will be honored with

Japan’s Second Highest National Award called ‘The Order of the Rising
Sun, Gold and Silver Star”.

3. Sri Lankan writer Guy Gunaratne was announced as the winner of

2019’s Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize. He won the
award for his debut novel ‘In Our Mad and Furious City’.

4. Patanjali Ayurved Limited's Managing Director, Acharya

Balkrishna received the 'UNSDG 10 Most Influential People in
Healthcare Award'.

5. Jokha Alharthi, an author from Oman won the prestigious Man

Booker International Prize for her Arabic novel “Celestial Bodies”. She
will share the prize with her UK based translator named Marilyn Booth.

6. Indian peacekeeper, Late IPS Jitender Kumar will be honoured with

prestigious UN medal called Dag Hammarskjöld Medal for courage and
sacrifice in the line of duty.

7. Bengaluru-based medical doctor Hema Divakar was honoured with

the 'Global Asian of the Year 2018-19' award for her services and
contributions to the women's healthcare ecosystem.

8. Indian artist Nalini Malani has won the biennial Joan Miro Prize
for 2019. The award is named after Spanish painter and sculptor Joan Miró,
one of the most influential artists the 20th century.
9. John Bailey, President of Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
which is popularly known as Oscar Academy, e-launched the Hindi
translation of Academy Publication “Digital Dilemma”.

Indian writer Annie Zaidi announced as the 2019 winner of the Nine Dots
Prize; a prestigious book prize created to award innovative thinking that
addresses contemporary issues around the world.

Lifetime Recognition Award by the Confederation of Horticulture Association

of India was given to Professor N. Kumar, Vice-Chancellor of Tamil Nadu
Agricultural University.

1. Indian Air Force chief, Birendra Singh

Dhanoa led a group of four Mig-21 aircraft
that flew in a “missing man" formation in
Bhisiana, Bhatinda to honor the valor and
supreme sacrifice of men killed in action
during Operation ‘Safed Sagar’ at Kargil.

2. The 72nd session of the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s World

Health Assembly (WHA72) was recently held in Geneva, Switzerland.
Theme: “Universal Health Coverage: Leaving no one behind”.

3. The 2nd Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Mass Media

Forum was recently held at Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan capital.

Also, the Council of Foreign Ministers Meeting was held in Bishkek recently.

4. The 2019 (8th edition) of the Indo-Myanmar coordinated patrol

(IMCOR) between the Navies of India and Myanmar was recently held in
Port Blair at Andaman and Nicobar.

5. The 5th Smart Cities India 2019 expo, including Transport India,
Solar India, Buildings India, and Water India expos, was recently held at
the Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. It was organized by India Trade
Promotion Organization (ITPO).

6.  Second U20 Mayors Summit was recently held in Tokyo before
the G20 summit to be held in Osaka.

7. International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB): May 22

Theme: “Our Biodiversity, Our Food, Our Health”

8. World Turtle Day: May 23

Theme: Adopt, Don’t Shop

9. International Day to End Obstetric Fistula (IDEOF): May 23

10. World Thyroid Day: May 25

11. International Missing Children’s Day: May 25

12. World Hunger Day: May 28

Theme: Sustainability

13. International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers: May 29

Theme: Protecting Civilians, Protecting Peace

14. International Everest Day: May 29

Observed every year in memory of the first summit of Mt. Everest on 29

May 1953 undertaken by Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing
Norgay of Nepal.

15. World Digestive Health Day: May 29

Theme: Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancer

16. World No Tobacco Day: May 31

Theme: Tobacco and Lung Health

1. The architectural heritage of Orchha town in

Madhya Pradesh has been included in the
tentative list of UNESCO's World Heritage
Sites.

2. Sahara: Hostel for the ‘Veer Naris’ was

recently opened in New Delhi for the widows
of the Navy Martyrs.

3. The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu called for protecting

and promoting the indigenous Ongole cattle breed of Andhra
Pradesh.

4. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati has signed a

Memorandum of Understanding MoU with The Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) to set up an IITG-ISRO Space Technology Cell
(STC).

1. ISRO’s new commercial arm called New

Space India Limited (NSIL) was recently
inaugurated in Bengaluru.

It will act as an aggregator for all space-

related activities in the industry. It will also
develop private entrepreneurship in space-
related technologies.

2. The leaders of the BIMSTEC (The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-
Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) group were invited during
the oath-taking ceremony of the PM Modi for the 17th Lok Sabha.  

3. Flight Lieutenant Bhawana Kanth made history when she became

the first women of Indian Air Force to qualify to undertake combat
mission on a fighter jet.

4. FSSAI has permitted small organic producers, having an annual

turnover of over Rs 12 lakh, to sell their produce directly to end
consumers without certification till April 2020, but will not be able to
use ‘Jaivik Bharat logo’ on their products.

5. India’s beloved children’s author Ruskin Bond recently released a

new memoir set against the backdrop of the partition- “Coming
Round the Mountain” on the occasion of his 85th birthday.

6. India's first Tree Ambulance initiated in Chennai by Green man of

India Dr. K Abdul Ghani and it is sponsored by the SASA Group.

7. ISRO Chairman K Sivan Reddy flagged off the shipment of India's

largest liquid hydrogen storage tank at the VRV Asia Pacific's
manufacturing plant at Sri City in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh
recently.

8. India’s only orangutan named Binny died at the age of 41 in

Nandankanan Zoological Park in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

9. Consumer-insights company TRA, named Virat Kohli as the “Most

Trusted Personalities in Sports 2019”.
1. According to a recent report by Pune
based antivirus firm Quick-heal, Mumbai is
the most vulnerable city to cyberattacks in
2019.

2. India was ranked at 117th  position out of 181 countries in the

Kids Right Index, the annual global index which ranks how countries
adhere to and are equipped to improve child rights.

Countries are judged on five indicators: the right to life, right to

education, right to health, right to protection and enabling environment for
child rights.

3. With sales estimated at Rs. 168.25 crores, sculptor Anish Kapoor (UK
Based) has topped the first edition of the Hurun India Art List.

4. India has moved up one place to rank 43rd most competitive

economy in the world in annual competitiveness rankings compiled
by the International Institute for and Development (IMD).

5. In Speed test Global Index for April 2019 published by Ookla,

India’s was ranked 121 in mobile speeds and 68 in fixed broadband
speeds. Norway topped the position for mobile internet whereas Singapore
topped in fixed broadband.

1. Russia recently launched nuclear-

powered Arctic icebreaker named ‘Ural’ at
Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg. The move is to
tap commercial potential of Arctic Ocean.

2. The National Aeronautics and Space

Administration (NASA) has unveiled the
calendar for its forthcoming ambitious
program “Artemis” program which will return astronauts to Moon for the
first time in past 50 years.

3. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Algeria

(Capital: Algiers, Currency: Dinar) and Argentina (Capital: Buenos
Aires, Currency: Peso) as ‘Malaria-Free’ countries after no cases of
indigenous transmission of disease were recorded.

4. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) recently launched the ‘Golden Card’
Permanent Residency Scheme in an attempt to woo wealthy individuals
and exceptional talents from other countries.

5. The year 2019 has been declared as ‘International Year of

Indigenous Languages’ by the UN General Assembly, so as to bring
awareness to the importance of linguist.

6. The United States, Japan, South Korea, and Australia recently

organised one off first-of-its-kind naval drill named “Pacific
Vanguard” near Guam (US territory in the western Pacific Ocean).

7. According to recent research published in journal Nature, China

continues to use the banned ozone-depleting chemical called CFC-
11 in violation of the Montreal Protocol.

8. The World Health Organization (WHO) has for the first time
recognized “burn-out” in its International Classification of Diseases (ICD).
The decision was taken during the World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva.

1. India's Apurvi Chandela won the women's

10m Air Rifle event, Rahi Sarnobat clinched
gold in the women’s 25m pistol at this year's
third International Shooting Sport
Federation (ISSF) World Cup Rifle/ Pistol
stage in Munich, Germany.

2. In Sudirman Cup Badminton title 2019

China beats Japan in men’s doubles, women’s singles and men’s singles
held in China.

3. "Helo", India's social media platform was the team sponsor of

Indian Wheelchair Cricket Association (WCA) for Team India for Asia
Cup 2019 held in Nepal.

4. Sethu FC clinched their first ever Indian Women’s League trophy

defeating Manipur Police at the Guru Nanak Stadium, in Ludhiana, Punjab. 

5. Mahesh Mangaonkar won the Sekisui Open (Squash tournament)

held in Kriens, Switzerland recently.

6. Indian men's compound team of Abhishek Verma, Rajat Chauhan and

Aman Saini won the bronze at Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Antalya,
Turkey.

7. India bags a total of 57 medals including 12 Gold, 18 Silver and 27

Bronze at India Open International Boxing tournament in Guwahati.

8. MC Mary Kom, Shiva Thapa, L Sarita Devi and Naman Tanwar

won gold in their respective categories.

9. "The International Cricket Council (ICC) launched the "criiio"

campaign on the occasion of ICC Men’s World Cup in England.
10. Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes won Monaco Grand Prix that was
held in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

1. Three-time Formula One (F1) World

champion Niki Lauda died in Vienna recently.

2. Renowned filmmaker, film historian,

researcher, and educationist Vijaya Mulay
passed away recently.

3. Veteran Artist Benu Mishra, passed away recently in Guwahati,

Assam.

4. Four-time Kerala minister Kadavoor Sivadasan passed away

recently.

5. Lewis Hamilton won the Monaco Grand Prix recently.

6. An eminent artist Surya Prakash passed away recently in Hyderabad.

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