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Objective Current Affairs | May 2022
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| Current Affairs May 2022 |
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Most Important Current Affairs May 2022
1. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla formally launched the Kalam website. It is a literary initiative of the Prabha Khaitan Foundation to support and encourage vernacular literature.
2. Flipkart announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the West Bengal government to train and support local artisans, weavers and handicraft makers to leverage its e-commerce platform to scale up their businesses nationally.
3. ‘The Rock’, the biggest white diamond ever auctioned, was sold for a price of 18.6 million Swiss francs (USD 18.8 million).
4. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued instructions to all CBSE-affiliated schools regarding the formation of Yuva Tourism Clubs.
5. Vijay Sampla appointed as National Commission for Scheduled Castes Chairperson by President.
6. Manoj Pande has taken charge as new Chief of Army Staff.
7. International Museum Day is celebrated by museums across the globe on May 18th, to generate awareness about the significant role of museums in community building, national and international cooperation as well as cultural exchange.
8. Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the National Cyber Forensic Laboratory (NCFL) at Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) campus in Hyderabad.
9. Odisha's Titilagarh hottest place in the state with maximum temperature of 45.5 degrees Celsius.
10. Vinay Mohan Kwatra has taken charge as India's new Foreign Secretary.
11. Google has recently added 8 Indian languages including Assamese, Bhojpuri, Sanskrit, Dogri, Konkani, Meiteilon (Manipuri), Mizo, and Maithili.
Google has added 24 more languages to its Google Translate language-translation tool, covering a total of 133 languages used around the world. Google is also adding Quechua (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador), Guarani (Paraguay and Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina), and Aymara (Bolivia, Peru, and Chile) for the first time.
12. Baggavalli Somashekar Raju has taken over as the Vice Chief of Army Staff.
13. Ace football player Lionel Messi was the highest-paid athlete in the world over the last 12 months, as per the Forbes’ list of highest-paid athletes 2022.
14. French President Emmanuel Macron selected Labour Minister Elisabeth Borne as his new prime minister. This is only the second time in 30 years that a woman has been appointed to the prestigious role.
15. According to a recent report on pollution and health published in The Lancet Planetary Health, Air pollution was responsible for 16.7 lakh deaths in India in 2019, which is 17.8% of all deaths in the country that year. This is the largest number of air pollution-related deaths of any country.
16. Somali legislators have elected former leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as the African country’s next president.
17. The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) announced a new initiative to boost flows of digital foreign direct investments globally.
18. Reet Ka Maqbara, a Hindi novel written by Gitanjali Shree based in New Delhi, an ordinary literary figure. It won the International Booker Prize 2022, translated into English by Daisy Rockwell based in the United States.
19. The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers is celebrated on 29 May annually to pay tribute to the contributions of uniformed and civilian personnel.
20. Hungary elects Katalin Novak as first female President of the country.
21. Elisabeth Borne appointed as new France Prime.
23. Nobel winner Jose Ramos - Horta sworn in as East Timor president
(Capital - Dili)
24. . India's first EV charging station powered by bio - gas was inaugurated in
Mumbai, Maharashtra.
25. Santosh Trophy: Kerala beats West Bengal to lift the cup for seventh time.
26.
IPL 2022:
- This was the 15th season.
- In the final, Gujarat Titans beat Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets to win their first.
IPL title.
- Player of the series- Jos Buttler (Rajasthan Royals)
- Most runs (Orange Cap) - Jos Buttler (Rajasthan Royals) (863)
- Most wickets (Purple Cap) - Yuzvendra Chahal (Rajasthan Royals) (27)
27. Indian writer Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy Rockwell
won the International Booker Prize for " Tomb of Sand “.
28. South Korea becomes the first Asian member of NATO Cyber Research
Centre.
29. North Macedonia is the newest member of NATO.
30. Rajasthani Singer Mame Khan becomes the first Indian folk artist to walk
the Cannes Red Carpet.
31. Chhattisgarh becomes first state to restore old pension scheme.
32. Kolkata becomes the first metro city to get its own People's Biodiversity
Register.
33. Ministry of Culture to commemorate the 250th Birth Anniversary of Raja
Ram Mohan Roy from 22nd May 2022 to 22nd May 2023.
34. Jharkhand to get WHO Award for tobacco control.
35. Jain University, Karnataka won Khelo India University Games crown with
20 gold medals.
36. Uttarakhand becomes the 1st state to roll out drones in healthcare.
37. " Unicorn " is a term used in the venture capital industry to describe a
privately held start-up company with a value of over $ 1 billion.
38. Nikhat Zareen (52kg) becomes World Champion after beating Thailand's
Jitpong Jutamas.
39. Kuwait to build the world's largest petroleum research centre.
40. The 12th edition of the IBA Women's World Boxing Championships took
place in Istanbul, Turkey. First – Turkey. India - 4th.
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