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The Monthly Hindu Review | Current Affairs | May 2021 The Monthly Hindu Review | Current Affairs | May 2021 1 www.bankersadda.com | www.sscadda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App The Monthly Hindu Review | Current Affairs | May 2021 Contents The Most Important Current Affairs May 2021 ..................................................................................3 Economy Current Affairs ...........................................................................................................................7 International Current Affairs ...................................................................................................................8 National Current Affairs ......................................................................................................................... 10 States Current Affairs .............................................................................................................................. 12 Schemes/Committees ............................................................................................................................. 14 Appointments/Resignations (National & International) ............................................................. 15 Ranks and Reports ................................................................................................................................... 17 Sports Current Affairs ............................................................................................................................. 18 Summits And Conferences ..................................................................................................................... 20 Awards & Recognition ............................................................................................................................ 21 Important Days ......................................................................................................................................... 23 Defence Current Affairs .......................................................................................................................... 26 Science and Technology ......................................................................................................................... 27 Books & Authors ....................................................................................................................................... 29 Miscellaneous Current Affairs .............................................................................................................. 29 Obituaries ................................................................................................................................................... 31 Static Takeaways ...................................................................................................................................... 34 2 www.bankersadda.com | www.sscadda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App The Monthly Hindu Review | Current Affairs | May 2021 The Most Important Current Affairs May 2021 RBI sets up an advisory group to assist RRA 2.0 Here is the complete list of Winners: • Sportsman of the Year Award: Rafael Nadal The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has constituted an • Sportswoman of the Year Award: Naomi Osaka advisory group to assist the second Regulatory Review • Team of the Year Award: Bayern Munich Authority (RRA 2.0), which was set by the central bank • Breakthrough of the Year Award: Patrick Mahomes on May 01, 2021 to streamline regulations and reduce the • The comeback of the Year Award: Max Parrot compliance burden of regulated entities. The Advisory • Sport for Good Award: KICKFORMORE by KICKFAIR Group will be headed by SBI Managing Director S • Lifetime Achievement Award: Billie Jean King Janakiraman. • Athlete Advocate of the Year Award: Lewis Hamilton Other members of the 6-member advisory group are: • Sporting Inspiration Award: Mohamed Salah • T T Srinivasaraghavan (Former Managing Director • Sporting Moment of the Year Award: Chris Nikic and Non-Executive Director, Sundaram Finance), • Gautam Thakur (Chairman, Saraswat Co-operative Pakistan’s Babar Azam Wins ICC Players of the Bank), • Subir Saha (Group Chief Compliance Officer, ICICI Month for April 2021 Bank), Pakistani skipper Babar Azam has been named the ICC • Ravi Duvvuru (President and CCO, Jana Small Men’s Player of the Month for April 2021 for his Finance Bank), consistent and stellar performances across all formats in • Abadaan Viccaji (Chief Compliance Officer, HSBC the recently concluded series against South Africa. The India) ICC Player of the Month Awards recognise and celebrate About the RRA 2.0: the best performances from both male and female • The second Regulatory Review Authority (RRA 2.0), cricketers across all forms of international cricket has been set up for a period of one year from May 01, throughout the year. 2021, to review the regulations, circulars, reporting Along with Babar, Australian women’s team systems and compliance procedures for streamlining wicketkeeper-batsman Alyssa Healy also bagged the ICC them and making them more effective. Women’s Player of The Month accolade for her • The group will assist the RRA 2.0 by identifying incredible performances during the month of April. regulations, guidelines, and returns that can be Healy’s consistency with the bat has played a significant rationalised, and submit reports periodically to RRA role in Australia’s dominance. Healy has shown her class containing the recommendations/suggestions. in all conditions and against all types of bowling in the recent series against New Zealand. Naomi Osaka wins top title at 2021 Laureus World Sports Awards World number two tennis player Naomi Osaka of Japan has been named “Sportswoman of the Year” at the 2021 Laureus World Sports Awards. This is Osaka’s second Laureus Sports Awards. In 2019, she won the “Breakthrough of the Year” award. In the men’s category, World number two Rafael Nadal of Spain won the 2021 “Laureus Sportsman of the Year” title. This is the second title for Nadal, who also claimed the prestigious award in 2011. 3 www.bankersadda.com | www.sscadda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App The Monthly Hindu Review | Current Affairs | May 2021 ISRO develops 3 cost-effective ventilators, Six Heritage Sites added to India’s UNESCO oxygen concentrator World Heritage sites Tentative List The Indian Space Research Organisation’s Vikram The Union Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), has developed three recently announced that around six cultural heritage sites different types of ventilators and an oxygen have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. concentrator at a time when a shortage of this critical With this, the total number of sites in the UNESCO World medical equipment resulted in the deaths of many Covid- Heritage Sites Tentative list has increased to 48. 19 patients across the country. Based on designs, features The following six places have successfully entered the and specifications, we have named them, Prana, VaU and tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage sites. Svasta. All three are user-friendly, fully automated and • Ganga Ghats of Varanasi, with touch-screen specifications, meeting all safety • Temples of Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu, standards. • Satpura Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, Technology transfer will be done for the commercial • Maharashtra Military Architecture production of these three ventilators and the one oxygen • Hire Benkal Megalithic site, concentrator by this month itself. Likely to be priced • Bhedaghat Lametaghat of Narmada Valley in Madhya around ₹1 lakh, the ventilators developed by the ISRO Pradesh were cost-effective and easy to handle compared to the mini conventional ventilators that are currently priced Forbes Highest paid Athletes list 2021 released around ₹5 lakh. Forbes has unveiled its annual list of the 10 highest-paid About the Prana, VaU, Svasta and Shwaas: athletes of the year. UFC star Conor McGregor has • Prana is meant to deliver respiratory gas to the topped the Forbes list by earning $180 million in the past patient by automated compression of an Ambu bag, year beating soccer superstars Lionel Messi and Svasta is designed to work without electric power, Cristiano Ronaldo to become the highest-paid athlete in and the VaU is a low-cost ventilator equivalent to the world. The factors used by Forbes’ for calculation commercially available high-end ventilators. include all prize money, salaries and bonuses earned • The VSSC has also developed a portable medical between May 1, 2020, and May 1, 2021. oxygen concentrator called Shwaas. It is capable of Ranking Index supplying 10 litres of enriched oxygen per minute, Rank Name Sports Earning adequate for two patients at a time. Conor McGregor $180 • It enhances the oxygen gas content by selectively 1 MMA (Ireland) million separating the nitrogen gas from ambient air through Lionel Messi $130 Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) which is 2 Soccer (Argentina) million commonly used for the production of oxygen from the 3 Cristiano Ronaldo $120 air. Soccer (Portugal) million Dak Prescott $107.5 Andrea Meza crowned 69th Miss Universe 4 Football (United States) million 2020 Lebron James $96.5 5 Basketball Miss Mexico Andrea Meza has been crowned as the 69th (United States) million Miss Universe 2020. On the other hand, Miss India’s 6 Neymar (Brazil) Soccer $95 million Roger Federer Adline Quadros Castelino made it to the Top 4. Brazil’s 7 Tennis $90 million Julia Gama is the first runner-up, Peru’s Janick Maceta is (Switzerland)
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