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Current Affairs of May 2019 Current Affairs Of May 2019 Help Line No:- Khanpur : +91-9311668899 South Ex : +91-9311556699 CONTENTS National……………………………………………………...…...2 International……………………………………………….……09 Defence ………………………………………………….……..15 Appointments or Resign/Retired…………………………….....18 Honours/ Awards…………………………………………….....23 Sports…………………………………………………………...26 Obituaries…………………………………………………….....31 Important Days with theme…………………………………….34 www.tarainstitute.com Current Affairs National i. India's first Nobel laureate who reshaped Bengali literature and music, Rabindranath Tagore was also an educationist who started the Vishwa Bharati Environment Ministry Constitutes Committee To University in Shantiniketan, and in the process, Implement National Clean Air Programme challenged conventional mores of education. i. The Union Environment ii. Rabindranath Tagore's birth anniversary is also Ministry has constituted a known as Pochise Boishakh 2019. committee to implement the National Clean Air Mangaluru Police Gets An All-women Patrol Unit Programme (NCAP), which “Rani Abbakka Force” aims to reduce particulate matter (PM) pollution by i. Mangaluru City Police has 20%-30% in at least 102 cities by 2024. launched an all-women police ii. The committee will be chaired by the Secretary, patrol unit ‘Rani Abbakka Union Environment Ministry. It would be Force’. The force will cover the headquartered in New Delhi. malls, beaches, educational Important Takeways from above news- institutions, places of religious Union Minister of Environment, Forest and importance, and the public transport system and handle Climate Change- Dr. Harsh Vardhan. issues related to eve-teasing and chain-snatching, among others. BSNL Launches 'Bharat Fibre' Broadband Service ii. All-women police patrol force has been named after In Kashmir Valley the 16th-century warrior of coastal Karnataka, Queen i. State-owned telecom firm BSNL has become Abbakka of Ullal near Mangaluru, who fought the the first operator to start optical fibre-based high- Portuguese in the 16th century. speed broadband service in Pulwama with the launch Important Takeways from above news- of 'Bharat Fibre'. Karnataka Capital: Bengaluru, CM: H.D ii. This is the first such FTTH (fibre-to-the-home) Kumaraswamy, Governor: Vajubhai Vala. service deployment in the (Kashmir) Valley. The service has been launched in a business partnership India Re-Elected As Observer To ‘Arctic Council’ model with the local channel partner i. India was re-elected as Observer to the Arctic of Pulwama area, on a revenue sharing basis. Council, an intergovernmental forum. The decision was taken Infosys Foundation’s FCRA Licence Cancelled during the 11th Arctic i. The Home Ministry has Council ministerial meeting cancelled the registration of at Rovaniemi, Finland. Bengaluru-based NGO Infosys ii. The Council also appointed the International Foundation for alleged violation of Maritime Organisation (IMO) as a new Observer. norms in receiving foreign India successfully got the Observer status in 2013 grants. during the Kiruna Ministerial meeting held in Sweden. ii. All non-government Important Takeways from above news- organizations (NGOs) are mandatorily required to be The Arctic Council, a high level registered under the Foreign Contribution intergovernmental organisation set up in (Regulation) Act or FCRA to receive foreign funding. 1996 to promote cooperation, coordination and Important Takeways from above news- interaction among the Arctic States and protect Infosys Foundation was established in 1996. the Arctic environment. Sudha Murthy is the chairperson of the The Arctic Council is formed of eight Foundation. circumploar countries- Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Canada, US and 158th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore Russia. Observed www.tarainstitute.com Current Affairs India has its Arctic research i. ‘Gujarat Shops and Establishments (Regulation of station ‘Himadri’ in Svalbard, Norway since Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2008. 2019’ passed by Gujarat Assembly which came into force from May 1, 2019. The Act will allow the shops Chhattisgarh Deploys 1st Anti-Naxal Women and other businesses in the state to operate 24×7. Commando Unit ii. The Act replaced the Gujarat Shops i. The Chhattisgarh police for the first time has and Establishments Act, 1948 which prevented shops inducted women and other businesses from operating between 12 to 6 commandos in the a.m. District Reserve Guard Important Takeways from above news- (DRG), its frontline anti- Gujarat Capital: Gandhinagar, Governor: Naxal force. Om Prakash Kohli, CM: Vijay Rupani. ii. Comprising 30 women led by Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Dineshwari Nand, Vodafone Idea Signs Multi-Million Dollar IT Deal have received extensive training in jungle combat. With IBM Important Takeways from above news- i. India's largest telecom Chief minister: Bhupesh operator Vodafone Idea Baghel, Governor: Anandiben Patel. Ltd announced a five-year multi- With the induction of the women commando million-dollar IT outsourcing contingent, the number of platoons of the DRG deal with tech giant IBM. in Dantewada now stands at six. ii. The company did not divulge the size of the deal but some reports pegged it at about $700 million. 15th Finance Commission's Meeting With RBI Important Takeways from above news- Held In Mumbai Balesh Sharma is the CEO of Vodafone Idea. i. The 15th Finance Commission headed by Chairman, N.K. Bandana Sets Guinness World Records On Longest Singh held a detailed meeting Dancing Marathon with the Governor and Deputy i. A 18-year-old Nepali Governors of RBI in Mumbai. girl, Bandana danced ii. Key issues raised by RBI continuously for 126 hours to Governor, Shaktikanta Das and Finance set a Guinness World Records Commission Chairman, N.K. Singh were discussed in on 'Longest Dancing detail at the meeting. Marathon by an iii. These issues included the following:– Individual', a feat previously held by an Indian. The necessity of setting up State Finance ii. Bandana beat the record set by Kalamandalam Commissions for respective State Hemlatha, who danced continuously for 123 hours Governments. and 15 minutes in 2011. Public Sector Borrowing Requirements. Important Takeways from above news- Continuity of the Finance Commission. Nepal PM: K P Sharma Oli, Capital: Kathmandu. Need for Expenditure Codes, especially given that expenditure norms vary from state to state. Bharatpe Launches India's 1st UPI Bahi Khata For Role of States in Growth and Inflation, for Merchants instance, role of states in Ease of doing i. BharatPe - India's first Business. Fintech start-up enabling payments for merchants Gujarat Assembly Passes Act to Allow Shops & through interoperable UPI QR Businesses Remain Open 24X7 www.tarainstitute.com Current Affairs codes, has announced its foray into merchant RIL Acquires British Toy Retailer Hamleys services with a new app. i. Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) acquired British ii. Along with UPI payments, the app now allows toy retailer 'Hamleys' in an all-cash deal. RIL has merchants to manage their entire Bahi Khata and acquired Hamleys in 67.96 million pounds (about Rs. even note receivables and payables seamlessly. 620 cr). ii. With this announcement, Reliance will get hold of 100% shares of Hamleys Global Holdings New Heat-Sensing Snake Species Found, Named Limited (HGHL). After Arunachal Pradesh Netherlands Becomes The Third Largest Foreign i. Pune-based Indian Institute Direct Investor In India of Science Education and i. The Netherlands has emerged as the third largest Research (IISER) team found a foreign direct investor in India during 2017-18, with new species of reddish-brown investments pegged at about $2.67 billion across pit viper snake with a unique sectors. heat-sensing system, the first in ii. The Netherlands was also the second largest past 70 years in India. destination for foreign investment by Indian ii. The species is named 'Trimeresurus companies, after Singapore, with investments arunachalensis' after Arunachal Pradesh, where it worth $12.8 billion in 2017. was discovered. This makes Arunachal Pradesh the Important Takeways from above news- only state to have a pit viper named after it. Netherlands Capital: Amsterdam, Currency: Euro and SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 Rocket With Dragon USD. Spacecraft i. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Space X) WTO Ministerial Meeting Inaugurated In New launched its 17th Delhi commercial resupply i. The World Trade Organisation, WTO ministerial mission to the International meeting of developing countries began in New Space Station (ISS) by Delhi. The meeting will provide an opportunity for the using Falcon 9 rocket Ministers to discuss various issues and the way with Dragon Spacecraft. forward. ii. The 213-foot-tall rocket lifted off from Cape ii. 16 developing countries and 6 Least Developed Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. This mission Countries (LDCs) are participating in the meeting. It is a part of NASA’s Commercial Resupply includes China, South Africa, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Services (CRS) program, which uses commercial Turkey, Kazakhstan and Bangladesh. spacecraft to deliver cargo to the ISS. Rajiv Gandhi International Airport Ranked Important Takeways from above news- Among Top 10 In World-Air Help Space X Headquarter: Hawthorne, California, i. Global air passengers U.S, Founder & CEO: Elon Musk. right expert Airhelp came out with the list of world's Shahid Afridi Released His Autobiography, Titled best airports and Hyderabad ‘Game Changer’ Rajiv
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