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Find the detailed update of all the Important Current Affairs May 2015. You can now download the PDF for the daily Current Affairs capsule as well,download the free android app from here: Testbook App Person in News C N R Rao Eminent scientist C N R Rao was conferred with Japan”s highest civilian award for his outstanding contributions to science and Indo-Japanese science coperation. Achal Kumar Jyoti Achal Kumar Jyoti, a former Gujarat Chief Secretary, was appointed as the Election Commissioner, filling one of the two vacancies in the three-member body. Born on January 23, 1953, Jyoti will have a tenure of nearly three years, when he will turn 65. An EC or a CEC has a tenure of six years in office or till he or she attains the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier. From April 19, when Nasim Zaidi took over as the CEC till today, he was the only member in the poll body. Swami Atmasthanand Maharaj Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Swami Atmasthanand Maharaj, president of Ramakrishna Math and Mission Order whom he considers his guru. Sanjita Pradhan US President Barack Obama has nominated an IIT alumni to his advisory commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs). Obama announced the nomination of Sanjita Pradhan, an MBA from the Indian 2 / 31 Important Current Affairs May 2015 Capsule with PDF - Visit Testbook Blog for more useful articles by Narendra Agrawal - Best Place for Online Exam Preparation Institute of Technology, along with other nominations for several key administration post. Shashi Kapoor Veteran Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor was conferred with the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award by Union Minister Arun Jaitley at Prithvi theatre in Mumbai. Kapoor made his debut as a leading man in the 1961 film “Dharmputra” and went on to appear in more than 116 films during 60s, 70s and until the mid 80s. Some of his memorable films include “Deewar”, “Kabhie Kabhie”, “Namak Halal”, “Kaala Pathar” and others. His best known performances as child artist were in “Aag” (1948) and “Awaara” (1951), where he played the younger version of the character played by Raj Kapoor. Shashi Kapoor also worked as assistant director in the 1950s. He was honoured with Padma Bhushan in 2011. He is the 46th recipient of Dada Saheb Phalke Award to receive this honour for his outstanding contribution to the growth and development to Indian Cinema. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India’s highest award in cinema. It is presented annually at the National Film Awards ceremony by the Directorate of Film Festivals, an organisation set up by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. First presented in 1969, the award was introduced by the Government of India to commemorate Dadasaheb Phalke’s contribution to Indian cinema. The first recipient of the award was actress Devika Rani, who was honoured at the 17th National Film Awards. Rahul Yadav A week after withdrawing resignation, Housing.com Chief Executive Rahul Yadav in a surprise move decided to allot all his personal holding in the company worth Rs 150-200 crore to the employees. Yadav holds the highest shares among the founding team, which is now down to nine members from 12 when Housing began operations in 2012. Started by 12 IIT-Bombay graduates, Housing is a map-based real estate portal which helps people rent, sell and buy houses. Besides, SoftBank and Nexus Venture Partners, its other investors include Helion Venture Partners, Qualcomm Ventures and Falcon Edge. Arun Shrivastava The government appointed Arun Shrivastava as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Syndicate Bank, nearly nine months after the arrest of its CMD S K Jain in a graft case. Draupadi Murmu Draupadi Murmu has been sworn in as the first woman Governor of Jharkhand. Murmu succeeds Syed Ahmed, who will take over as the Governor of Manipur. A two-time BJP MLA from Odisha, Ms Murmu was a minister in the Naveen Patnaik cabinet when the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) ruled the state with the support of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She headed the BJP’s Mayurbhanj district unit in Odisha and had represented Rairangpur in the Odisha assembly. 3 / 31 Important Current Affairs May 2015 Capsule with PDF - Visit Testbook Blog for more useful articles by Narendra Agrawal - Best Place for Online Exam Preparation Harkeert Singh Saini An 44-year-old Indian-American policeman has been awarded the prestigious “Top Civilian Supervisor of the Year” award for his efficient services to the Houston Police department in the US state of Texas. Harkeert Singh Saini received the award from Police Chief Charles A McClelland And Houston Mayor Anise Parker during a function held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel here earlier this week. Saini, a police records supervisor has been working for the Houston Police department for the last 15 years. S S Ahluwalia Former Union minister and BJP MP S S Ahluwalia was appointed chairman of a Joint Committee of Parliament that will go into the provisions of the controversial land acquisition bill. Ahluwalia is a BJP Lok Sabha member from Darjeeling in West Bengal. The 30-member Joint Committee of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha would submit its report on the first day of Monsoon Session on the bill which has already been passed by the Lower House. Tathagata Roy Veteran BJP leader from West Bengal Tathagata Roy sworn in as the Governor of Tripura. Earlier, Padmanabha Balkrishna Acharya, the Nagaland Governor who had been discharging additional duty for Tripura, was given a farewell by the State government. V Shanmuganathan Senior BJP leader V Shanmuganathan was sworn-in as the Governor of Meghalaya at the Raj Bhavan here. Meghalaya was without a permanent governor for over four months. Shanmuganathan is a post-graduate and an M Phil in political Science. Akhil Amar US President Barack Obama has named an Indian-American professor from Yale University as a member of the prestigious National Council on Humanities. The nomination of Akhil Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at the university since 2008, was announced yesterday by Obama along with other key administration positions. Parvinder Singh Batth An Indian-origin councillor took charge as the mayor of Britain’s Wokingham Borough Council, the first-ever Sikh to hold this position. 4 / 31 Important Current Affairs May 2015 Capsule with PDF - Visit Testbook Blog for more useful articles by Narendra Agrawal - Best Place for Online Exam Preparation Parvinder Singh Batth, a Conservative party councillor has served his local borough of Wokingham in Berkshire in southeast England as deputy mayor, took over the role from councillor UllaKarin Clark and will serve till 2017. John Nash US mathematician John Nash, who inspired the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, has died in a car crash with his wife, police have said. The mathematician is renowned for his work in game theory, winning the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994. His breakthroughs in maths – and his struggles with schizophrenia – were the focus of the 2001 film. Even this week, Nash received the Abel Prize, another top honour in the field of mathematics. Nash’s famous equilibrium has grown to be perhaps the most important idea in economic analysis and has found application in fields as diverse as computing, evolutionary biology and artificial intelligence. Manoj Mishra Government has appointedManoj Mishra as Chairman and Managing Director of state-run National Fertilizers Ltd (NFL). Shri G Mohan Kumar Shri G Mohan Kumar took over as the new Defence Secretary, succeeding Shri RK Mathur, who laid down office yesterday. Belonging to the 1979 batch of IAS, Odisha cadre, Shri Mohan Kumar is a post- Graduate in Chemistry and an MBA from UK. He has worked in various ministries and departments including Steel, Water Resources, Rural Development, Fisheries, Export Development and VAT Administration. Shri Mohan Kumar was the Secretary, Defence Production since 01 September 2014 before taking over as the Defence Secretary. Pradip Baijal Yet another book has come out damming the previous UPA government with former TRAI Chairman Pradip Baijal alleging that the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had warned him of harm if he did not cooperate on 2G telecom licenses. This is for the second time that the former chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has chosen to speak through a book, the latest being, “The Complete Story of Indian Reforms: 2G, Power and Private Enterprise – A Practitioner’s Diary”. Nirbhay Sharma 5 / 31 Important Current Affairs May 2015 Capsule with PDF - Visit Testbook Blog for more useful articles by Narendra Agrawal - Best Place for Online Exam Preparation Lt General (Retd) Nirbhay Sharma was sworn-in as the Governor of Mizoram at the Durbar Hall of Raj Bhavan here. He is the eighth Governor of Mizoram after the then state Governor Vakkom Purushothaman resigned on July 12 last year in protest against being transferred to Nagaland. Selvin Christopher & GS Reddy The Modi government appointed radar specialist Selvin Christopher and missile scientist GS Reddy as the DRDO chief and Scientific Adviser to the defence minister, respectively.
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