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May 2019 Current Affair Compilation JOIN THE DOTS! Compendium – May 2019 Dear Students, With the present examination pattern of UPSC Civil Services Examination, General Studies papers require a lot of specialization with ‘Current Affairs’. Moreover, following the recent trend of UPSC, almost all the questions are based on news as well as issues. CL IAS has now come up with ‘JOIN THE DOTS! MAY 2019’ series which will help you pick up relevant news items of the day from various national dailies such as The Hindu, Indian Express, Business Standard, LiveMint, PIB and other important sources. ‘JOIN THE DOTS! MAY 2019’ series will be helpful for prelims as well as Mains Examination. We are covering every issue in a holistic manner and covered every dimension with detailed facts. This edition covers all important issues that were in news in the month of May 2019. Also, we have introduced Prelim base question for Test Your Knowledge which shall guide you for better revision. In addition, it would benefit all those who are preparing for other competitive examinations. We have prepared this series of documents after some rigorous deliberations with Toppers and also with aspirants who have wide experience of preparations in the Civil Services Examination. For more information and more knowledge, you can go to our website https://www.careerlauncher. com/upsc/ “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there” All the best!! Team CL Contents General Studies I: Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of World and Society 1. 750th Birth Anniversary of Sri Vedanta Desika .......................................................... 3 2. Extremely Severe Cyclone Fani reached Odisha Coast ............................................... 3 3. Geological Survey of India Report Arunachal has India’s 35% graphite deposits ...... 4 4. PM Modi pays tribute to Veer Savarkar on his Jayanti .............................................. 5 General Studies II: Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International relations 5. Iran warns to shut down the strategic Hormuz Strait ................................................. 9 6. International Labour Day 2019 .................................................................................... 9 7. US President Trump announces to withdraw from UN Arms Trade Treaty ............ 10 8. Sanctions imposed under Immigration and Nationality Act ..................................... 10 9. UN designates Masood Azhar as Global Terrorist ..................................................... 11 10. The 14th edition of the annual Sino-Indian border trade .......................................... 12 11. Russian President Vladimir Putin signs controversial internet bill into law ........... 12 12. Relative of victim can lodge complaint of dowry harassment: SC ............................. 13 13. CJI meets SC in-house panel on sexual harassment allegations .............................. 13 14. World Press Freedom Day-2019 .................................................................................. 14 15. e-Governance Services and IIT-Kanpur agreement to upscale Unnat Bharat Abhiyan ................................................................................................ 14 16. Zero pendency court project by Delhi high court ........................................................ 15 17. India re-elected as Observer to ‘Arctic Council’ .......................................................... 16 18. Honey Mission initiative .............................................................................................. 17 19. Home Ministry terminates Black List of Indian-origin people .................................. 18 20. NIOS, NHMPH sign pact to provide quality training to multipurpose health workers....................................................................................... 18 21. SC grants time extension for mediation in Ayodhya case till August 15 .................. 19 22. Will not extend deadline for finalisation of Assam NRC: Supreme Court ................ 20 23. Chhattisgarh deploys anti Naxal women’s commando unit ...................................... 21 24. On Vietnam visit, Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu calls for building a peaceful and prosperous Indo-Pacific region .............................................................. 22 25. UN appoints actress Dia Mirza, Alibaba’s Jack Ma as new ‘SDG Advocates’ .......... 22 26. IMF Bails Out Cash-strapped Pakistan in Nick of Time, to Pay $6 Billion Over Next 3 Years ....................................................................................... 23 27. India hosts two-day WTO ministerial meeting........................................................... 24 28. Sea phase of ADMM-Plus exercise concludes in Singapore ....................................... 25 29. India, Mongolia to ink pact for petrochemical unit .................................................... 25 30. US, France, Japan and Australia hold first combined naval drill in Asia ................ 26 31. Nuclear test ban body offers India ‘observer’ status .................................................. 27 32. Government extends ban on Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam................................ 28 33. Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex .................................. 28 34. US approves missile sales to South Korea, Japan ..................................................... 28 35. Lokpal Website inaugurated by Chairperson Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose ......... 29 36. India delivers a pair of Mi-24 helicopters to Afghanistan ......................................... 29 37. ISRO missions for next 10 years ................................................................................. 30 38. Singapore India Maritime Bilateral Exercise – SIMBEX-2019 ................................. 31 39. Chagos Archipelago: UN General Assembly Gives UK a Six-month Deadline to Stop Occupying Indian Ocean Archipelago .......................... 31 40. Eyeing commercial operations in Arctic, Russia launches first of three nuclear icebreakers .................................................................................................................... 32 41. Video game addiction is a mental health disorder, World Health Organization says ................................................................................. 34 42. Government invites BIMSTEC leaders for swearing-in ceremony ........................... 35 General Studies III: Technology, Economic Developments, Biodiversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management 43. PepsiCo sues Indian farmers over the FC5 potato row .............................................. 39 44. The government has raised import duty on wheat from existing 30% to 40% to support local farmers interest. ........................................................... 39 45. Environment Ministry constitutes committee to implement National Clean Air Programme ................................................................................... 40 46. 17th edition of Varuna: France, India begin ‘Varuna’ naval exercise off Goa coast .. 41 47. ISRO to launch radar imaging satellite ‘RISAT 2BR1’ .............................................. 41 48. Chandrayaan-2 ............................................................................................................. 42 49. RBI penalises Vodafone; m-pesa, PhonePe and three others over regulatory violations ....................................................................................................................... 43 50. Indian Navy launches submarine ‘INS Vela’ .............................................................. 44 51. SpaceX successfully launched cargo mission to the ISS ............................................ 45 52. NASA’s First Planetary Defense Technology to Collide with Asteroid in 2022 ........ 46 53. Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) ........................................... 47 54. Asteroid Apophis will flyby Earth on April 13, 2029 .................................................. 47 55. Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) ...................................... 48 56. Sand and Sustainability: UNEP Report on Sand Mining .......................................... 49 57. Japan’s first private rocket ‘Momo-3’ launched .......................................................... 50 58. Ireland declares climate emergency ............................................................................ 50 59. Nearly all countries agree to stem flow of plastic waste into poor nations ............... 51 60. CCMB scientists sequence Asiatic lion genome ......................................................... 52 61. India backs Nigeria’s Ambassador appointment as next President of UN General Assembly .................................................................................................. 53 62. Department of Biotechnology launched MANAV: Human Atlas Initiative .............. 53 63. NABARD announces Rs 700-crore venture capital fund for rural agricultural start-ups ......................................................................................... 54 64. MoU Signed for Rudraksh Plantation in Ganga Basin ............................................. 55 65. RBI releases ‘Vision 2021’ for e-payment system ....................................................... 55 66. India Conducts Successful Flight Test of Abhyas Target Drone: ABHYAS - a Highspeed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) ....................................
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