ISSUE 5, MAY 2016 TM where career starts www.toprankers.com 3 ACCOMPLISHMENT - Charles Borromeo resigned from Tata Steel Sports Department -14 - Harmeet Kaur Dhillon, elected to key Republican position - 14 - Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright claimed to be creator of Bitcoin- 15 - Sameer Chadha appointed as Partner and CEO of KPMG - 15 - Mexican diplomat Patricia Espinosa selected as executive secretary of UNFCCC - 16 - Vice Admiral Sunil Lanba appointed as Chief of the Naval Staff- 16 - Kumar Rajesh Chandra appointed Chief of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security-17 - Manohar Kumar takes over as Director (Engg) in NPCC-17 - Dilip Tuli appointed as Senior Vice President of Housing.com -18 - Kishore Biyani appointed as Managing Director of Bharti Retail-18 - Yash Chopra’s statue is in Switzerland-19 - Shashank Manohar resigns as BCCI president-18 - Uday Kotak, only Indian in Forbes Most Powerful People in the Financial World list-20 - President approves name of Four Judges for Supreme Cour-20 - Manjit Singh, appointed as member of President‘s Advisory Council-21 - Fatma Samoura named first female secretary general of FIFA-22 - Hinupur Pradeep Rao appointed as the Deputy CAG-22 -Justice Tinlianthang Vaiphei sworn in as acting Chief Justice of Tripura High Court-23 - Indian Army Successfully Summits Mount Everest-23 - Indian Army Successfully Summits Mount Everest-23 - Tsai Ing-wen sworn-in as first women President of Taiwan-24 ISSUE 5, MAY 2016 tt 4 - Kiran Bedi appointed Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry-25 - Ratan P Watal appointed as Niti Aayog’s Principal Adviser-25 - Erdogan ally to be new Turkish Prime Minister-26 - Anurag Thakur becomes BCCI‘S one of the youngest president-27 - Lt General SK Saini new commandant of Indian Military Academy-27 - Sonowal becomes BJP‘s first Chief Minister in Assam-28 - Govind Rajan became CEO of Snapdeal owned Freecharge-29 - Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee sworn in as Chief Minister of West Bengal-29 - V Narayana-swamy to be Puducherry Chief Minister-30 AWARDS - Swat activist Tabassum Adnan won 2016 Nelson Mandela Award -31 - Former bureaucrat NK Singh selected for Japan’s highest civilian award-31 - President Pranab Mukherjee conferred 63rd National Film Awards-32 - President Pranab Mukherjee confers Niryat Shree and Niryat Bandhu Awards-32 - Indian Parashar Kulkarni wins 2016 Commonwealth Short Story -33 - President Mukherjee presents gallantry awards to defence personnel-34 - Indian-American Revathi Balakrishnan named as 2016 Texas Elementary Teacher of the Year-34 - Hockey India recommended Ritu Rani and VR Raghunath for Arjuna Awardt-35 - President confers Florence Nightingale Awards.-35 - Anjali Chandrashekhar comes 3rd in UN Poster for Peace contest-36 - Harvey Milk Foundation to Honor Bollywood Actress Celina Jaitlyt-36 - 5 Indians posthumously awarded with Dag Hammarskjold Medal of UN-37 TM where career starts tt 5 - South Korea‘s Jan Kang won Man Booker Internationalt-38 - “Vesak Samman Prashasti Patra-2016” Awards Presented to Buddhist scholars-38 - I, Daniel Blake‘ won Palme d‘Or at Cannes 2016-39 - Routes 2 Roots, a Delhi-based Non-profit organization-39 - Sunil Bharti Mittal, received the Harvard B-School Alumni award-40 - Indian-American scientist Arnab De has received the prestigious Springer Theses Award.-40 - President Pranab Mukherjee presented Malti Gyan Peeth Puraskar 2016 -41 - Rehman conferred Japan‘s Fukuoka Prize- 41 NATIONAL NEWS - Railways launch Indrail Pass for foreigners-43 - Centre government LED scheme launched in Madhya Pradesh-43 - Maha Govt to develop textiles park at Amravati- 44 - Union Government banned import of dogs for commercial breeding.- 44 - Supreme Court banned all diesel cabs in NCR-Delhi from May 1. -45 - Indian Railways to plant trees alongside Railway Track-45 - NRDC signed agreements for commerci-alization of Ghar Sodhon-46 - Supreme Court appointed RM Lodha-panel to reform Medical Council of India-46 - BHEL commis-sioned 600 MW thermal power plant in Madhya Pradesh.-47 - Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu launched Wi-Fi hotspot-47 - Banihal-Baramulla Fast Passenger (DEMU) and Budgam-Baramulla-48 - Two laning with formation of four lane of Shimla Bypass on NH-22 Approved.-49 - Portal for Contract Labour Payment-49 ISSUE 5, MAY 2016 t 6 - Dial 112 for any Emergency throughout India from 1 January 2017- 50 - Telangana govt to set up Monkey rescue and rehabilitation centre-50 - Indian Railways launches Bharat Darshan Tourist train for pilgrims.-51 - Uttarakhand Floor Test: Harish Rawat-51 - Rural Sanitation Initiatives for Ganga-52 - Ministry Of Road Transport & Highways Sets-53 - Maharashtra declares drought in 29000 villages.-53 - Nitin Gadkari Launches INFRACON,-54 - NTPC tied-up with Coal India Limited-55 - India‘s first driverless train was flagged off by Union Minister-55 - TMC got huge majority ever in the History of West Bengal‘s election.-56 - LDF will make government in Kerala-56 - BJP to form its 1st government in ASSAM-57 - Jaya lalitha retains power in Tamil Nadu-58 - Odisha to launch Green Passage-59 - BHEL commissions 250 MW thermal unit in Maharashtra-59 - Cyclone Roanu hits coastal area of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh-60 - Gujarat launched Smart Village program-61 - World Bank loans 100 million dollar for Karnataka water projects-62 - Hubballi-Dharwad, the second largest urban center in Karnataka,-62 - Sikkim bans disposable foam food containers.-63 TM where career starts 7 - 13 new cities announced for smart cities Projects-64 - Cabinet approves 1st ever Capital Goods Policy-64 - Human Resource Development-65 - Union cabinet gives approval to 6 New IITs-66 - Andhra Pardesh to introduce e -office system in all districts.-66 - India‘s first multilingual dictio-nary“ Bhara-tvani“ launched-67 - Pakke Tiger Reserve in East Kameng district of Arunachal-67 - Lakshadweep became first Union Territory (UT) in the country-68 - Union Ministry of Railways and PEC University of Technology-68 SPORTS - Indian shooters bagged 3 gold, 1 bronze in ISSF Junior World Cup-70 - Mark Selby won World Snooker Championship-70 - Indian shuttlers qualify for Rio 2016-71 - India finishes fourth in junior shooting World Cup-71 - Bicycle highway between Taj and lion safari-72 - Charlotte Edwards, England women’s cricket captain,-72 - Max verstappen becomes youngest F1 GP winner.-73 - Sania -Hingis won Rome Masters women‘s double pair-73 - Andy Murray beats Novak Djokovic to win first Italian Open title-74 - Sudha breaks 3000 M steeplechase record-74 - Women‘s relay team sets new national records-75 - Sevilla won 3rd consecutive Europa League title-75 - Barcelona lifted 28th Copa Del Rey title-76 - Pankaj Advani 1st to hold continental, world title-76 ISSUE 5, MAY 2016 t 8 - India claims silver in Asian Team Snooker Championship-77 - Real Madrid won its 11th Championship League title-77 - Two Indian Americans won US Spelling Bee 2016-78 - Sunrisers Hydrabad won their maiden IPL title-78 - Sandhu 1st Indian to play in European Laegue-79 - Alastair cook became youngest player to reach 10,000 Test runs-80 - Weir sets world record in 1 mile wheelchair race-80 ECONOMICS - The small Industries Development Bank of India has inked with SAARC-82 - Maharashtra is the biggest contributor to income tax collections in India-82 - NABARD partners Germany for food security initiative-83 - Rahuri in Ahmednagar becomes first to have digi-locker.-83 - Union Commerce Ministry launched EXIM Analytics-84 - Reliance to sign 15 new industrial license agreements in the defense sector-85 - Google acquires business technology startup Synergyse-85 - BRICS bank became the first partner with ICICI Bank in India-86 - MoC between Ministry of Women & Child Development and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-87 - ECB decided to end production and issuance of 500 euro banknote-87 - India ranks Ninth in Crony-Capitalism Index-88 - RBI to issue 1000 Rupees Banknotes with inset letter R-88 - Infosys Foundation has signed a pact with Indian Institute -89 - Commemorative Coin of 100 rupees & Circulation Coin-89 - Union Cabinet approves for MoU between SEBI and FSRA Abu Dhabi-90 TM where career starts 9 - Apple invested $1 billion in Chinese taxi service Didi Chuxing-90 - Apple opens Development Office in Hyderabad-91 - PNB tops list of worst losses in Indian banking history-91 - Nepal SBI Bank launches payment gateway-92 - Demand of Consolidation in Indian Banking sector.-92 - Samsung to launch 1st nationwide loT Network-93 - Intel India announced new initiatives to support Digital India-94 - Infosys‘ Rs 600-cr SEZ project-94 DEFENCE - Offshore patrol vessel ICGS Shaurya launched.-96 - US Navy tested world‘s largest unmanned surface vessel, Sea Hunter-96 - Two Harbour Defence Systems commissioned-97 - Indian Air Force’s Electronic Maintenance-97 - “Ashwin” an indigenous Air Defence interceptor missile, has been -98 - A joint US-Australian military research team successfully-98 - India and Russia have agreed to export BrahMos-99 - BrahMos supersonic cruise missile test fired-99 - Union Ministry of Railways and PEC University of Technology-100 OBITUARIES - Famous American actor William Schallert died-101 - Nirankari Spiritual leader Baba Hardev Singh dies in-101 - French scientist André Brahic died-102 - Diwaliben Bhil passed away-102 - Veteran leader of CPI(M) K Anirudhan passed away-103 - Marathi litterateur and critique R.G. Jadhav passed away.-103 ISSUE 5, MAY 2016 t- 10 SCIENCE - China developed world‘s first graphene electronic paper-105 - University of Cambridge have built the world’s smallest